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From: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John F. Bruno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Force booting from the Hard Drive
Message-ID: <4078@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 30 Jul 90 04:23:16 GMT
References: <1990Jul27.195616.3354@ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno)
Organization: Integrated Healthcare Technologies, Inc.
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In article <1990Jul27.195616.3354@ecn.purdue.edu> moyman@ecn.purdue.edu (James M Moya) writes:
>
>Is there a way to force a Macintosh Machine with a hard drive to boot from the
>hard drive *even* if a floppy is inserted at boot up??  Please e-mail
>to me...

Even if there was, I wouldn't do it if I were you. The floppy is checked first
for a reason. What would you do if the System on the hard drive became 
corrupted?

>
>
>Mike Moya                            moyman@ecn.purdue.edu
>Engineering Computer Network
>Purdue University

---jb