Re: Prodos Question (Update)

[Cyrus Roton <croton@ridgecrest.ca.us>]

On 14 Oct 1995, DavidA wrote:

> In article <hinchlif-0610951344070001@vetmac24.murdoch.edu.au>,
> hinchlif@numbat.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe) wrote:
> 
> > In article <DFuCqo.yG.0.sheppard@torfree.net>, bo144@torfree.net (David
> > Arnett) wrote:
> > 
> > >    I should have checked all my disks before I asked the last question.  
> > > I found a Prodos disk with Prodos 8 on it.  Now the question is, how can 
> > > I format a new disk in Prodos 8?  When the disk boots, it goes on to load 
> > > the program on it.  If I press CTRL-RESET, I end up in the monitor, and 
> > > breaking out with CTRL-C won't let me enter any Prodos commands.  My 
> > > system disk is the one with Prodos 1 on it.  Can I simply initialize a 
> > > disk with the system utilities (under prodos 1) and then use the system 
> > > utilities to copy Prodos 8 onto it?  Can I copy Prodos 8 onto the system 
> > > utilities disk itself, so all future disks will format into Prodos 8?  
> > >    I have never used Prodos before, except to run the programs on the 
> > > disks, so any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> 
> If the disk is your System Utilities that came with your computer, you can
> Format a disk and copy ProDOS and a .SYSTEM file over.  If you want to use
> the disk for BASIC, Copy BASIC.SYSTEM over to the disk along with ProDOS.
> 

One more thing worth noting: after you copy ProDOS 8 (or PD8) to the 
bootable disk, rename it "ProDOS". Otherwise, it won't boot.