Questions about IIGS, hard drives, and booting different OSes...

["Warren Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com>]

All,

OK, so I now have an accelerated Rom3 GS, lotsa ram, and a CFFA. But
this question relates to any GS with a bootable, high-capacity storage
device.

(And before you think me insanely stupid for asking, prior to this GS,
all I ever owned was a souped up //e with a 1-meg bootable RamFactor
loaded with ProDOS 8 and 8-bit software.)

I would like to be able to boot either into ProDOS 8 or GS/OS,
depending on what I'm in the mood for that day, with my CFFA and a
large Compact Flash card.

Not knowing any better, I would assume I would install GS/OS 6.01 onto
one partition, and ProDOS 8 on another partition, and I guess figure
out how to get DOS 3.3 images on another partition.

Assuming the CFFA card is in Slot 7 (and the bootable slot is set to
"SCAN"), I would imagine that a PR#7 (or a cold- or warm-boot) would
boot the computer into the OS that was in the first partition on the
card. I can't think of how I would boot into the second (or third, or
fourth) partitons.

Or would I install ProDOS 8 on the first parition, GS/OS on the second,
and then manually launch GS/OS from ProDOS 8 when I wanted it? That
doesn't seem right.

I'm so confused! ;-) Can someone explain how this works to me?

Thanks,
Warr