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Re: GS-OS problems!



dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) writes:

>Here's the problem:  every time I boot the machine, it boots to the hard
>drive.  By itself, no big deal.  But I have a lot of stuff that runs off
>of floppy, too (mostly DOS 3.3 stuff).  Right now, to boot off the floppy
>I have to do one of two things--

>a.  Interrupt the boot process with my favorite key (which used to be
>labelled "RESET" but somehow turned into an arrow...) and issue the PR#5
>or PR#^ command, or...

>b.  Launch BASIC.SYSTEM out of the Finder, then issue the boot command.


OR you could hold down option as you power up the computer (or hit
control-openapple-option-reset) enter the control panel, set the startup
slot to slot 5, and boot from slot 5. :)

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