Re: ProDOS booting..

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:46:18 -0400, Chris M <chris@sorry.no.spam.com>
wrote:

>When ProDOS boots up a floppy or hard drive, the initial loader first
>looks for the file "PRODOS".. If found, it loads that and it looks for
>the first XXX.SYSTEM file...
>
>Is there any way to "re-arrange" the SYSTEM files so that it will
>execute the one you want?

Well, you can do the directory resort that others have suggested or
you could just rename all the .SYSTEM files in the root directory so
they don't have .SYSTEM as the end of their name.

For instance, if you have BASIC.SYSTEM, SYSUTILS.SYSTEM and
SHRINKIT.SYSTEM in the root directory you could rename them to BASIC,
SYSUTILS and SHRINKIT (or BASIC.SYS, SYSUTILS.SYS and SHRINKIT.SYS or
whatever you want) and none of them will boot automatically.   You
could then rename SHRINKIT to SHRINKIT.SYSTEM and it would be the
start program.  To make SYSUTILS the startup program, rename
SHRINKIT.SYSTEM to SHRINKIT and SYSUTILS to SYSUTILS.SYSTEM.

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