Re: Looking For: Help w/ AppleTalk on IIgs + Some Stuff for a IIgs

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <DALL0z.60A@gonix.com>, Carl Knoblock <cknoblo@gonix> wrote:
>erik@hypermall.com (Erik Kloeppel) writes:
>: 
>: you need to format the ramdisk first.  I dunno why - you can use it as a
>: disk without formatting, but in order to boot from it, you have to format
>: it first.
>: Go figger.
>
>A bootable device needs the boot code in Block zero. The ramdisk does not 
>have this code until you format it. It works fine for anything but 
>booting without formatting.

I wrote myself an init that sets the creation and modification dates to the
current time if they aren't set, and writes the boot code to block zero if
it's not there too. I don't think this could be distributed tho since there's
some copyrighted code in there. It's handy since I can boot from the RAM
disk without having to format it and I can tell how long my machine's been on.
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Randy Shackelford                                Huh huh, that was cool.
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