Re: Ramdisk + harddrive

[gids.rs@sasktel.net]

On Friday, 10 May 2013 08:03:17 UTC-6, gid...@sasktel.net  wrote:
> On Friday, 10 May 2013 05:13:24 UTC-6, RJ  wrote:

> > IIgs, Rom 3, 4 meg ram card, 80meg hard drive (scsi).

> > I would like to know if this is possible.  I have been reading up on
> > FLashBoot software to enable my 4 meg ram as a ramdrive.  What i would like
> > to do is use my ramdisk (max 2400k storage thru flashboot) to hold system
> > 6.0.1, but instead of creating the flashboot image disk on 3.5 diskette, i
> > would like to put these created image disks on the hard drive and when i
> > boot the computer up, i want it to access the image disk and ultimately use
> > the flashboot ramdisk to boot up system 6.0.1.  Is this possible? Or should
> > i leave the system 6.0.1 on physical hard drive?  I basically want to test
> > the speed of the ramdrive upon loading a maxed out system 6.0.1 with
> > accessories and compare that to my hard drive speed.  Any feedback will
> > always be appreciated, thanks.
 
> If you are just doing it for testing purposes, the Ram charger is not necessary.  Just copy the boot files to the Ram drive.  Which consist of Prodos, System folder and icons folder, from your SCSI drive.

> To make things simple, create a folder called "Ram disk" on your SCSI hard drive.  Copy the Prodos file, System folder and icons folder to the newly created "Ram disk" folder.  Verify the "Ram disk" folder will fit on the Ram drive.  Remove unneeded files from that folder until it fits on the Ram drive.
> 
> Now you can just select those three files (Prodos, System folder and icons folder) and drag them to copy to the Ram drive.  This does require that you boot from your SCSI when you first start up your computer.  But after that, system resets will boot from the Ram drive.
 
> Set up your IIGS control panel to boot from slot #5.  Before shutting off the computer, you will have to return the boot slot to the slot the SCSI drive is in.

> And lastly, press control-Open apple-reset, to boot from the Ram drive.



Correction:  Set up your IIGS control panel to boot from the Ram drive.