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From: johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz (John MacLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Suggestion re. System.Disk --> /RAM5
Keywords: WHY USE GS/OS FOR PLEBIAN COPYING JOBS?
Message-ID: <439@fawlty.towers.oz>
Date: 14 Aug 90 22:56:36 GMT
References: <11788@netcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: johnmac@fawlty.ips.oz (John MacLean)
Organization: Tower Technology, Lane Cove, NSW, Australia
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In article <11788@netcom.UUCP> avery@netcom.UUCP (Avery Colter) writes:
>A while ago, some people were posting about problems associated with
>loading the SYSTEM.DISK into /RAM5 with GS/OS, citing that the shutdown
>operation in the Finder tended to go haywire.

Back before I had a hard disk I used to use a patched ProDOS file that
did the following:
- If the boot slot was /RAM5, it continued with the normal ProDOS boot.
- Otherwise it did a smart block copy of the 3.5 to /RAM5, changed the
boot slot to /RAM5, and re-booted.

Of course this requires at least 1.5 Meg of RAM if you are using GS/OS.
But I am sure there are people out there with >= 1.5 Meg RAM and no
hard disk.
This way all but the first boot are fast.
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