Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!vtserf!creatures!davism From: davism@creatures.cs.vt.edu (Mat Davis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: MacPartition Summary: Use the General... menu choice Message-ID: <547@creatures.cs.vt.edu> Date: 16 Aug 90 01:51:45 GMT References: Distribution: na Organization: VA Tech CS Dept, Blacksburg, VA 24060 Lines: 17 In article demarsee@gamera.acs.syr.EDU (Darryl E. Marsee) writes: > >Under A/UX 2.0, can the MacOS partition that contains the A/UX StartUp >application be on a separate physical drive from the A/UX partition that >it launches? And if so, how/where does one designate under A/UX StartUp >where it should look for that A/UX partition? Yes, it can. Use the General... choice on the Preferences menu and change the '(0,0,0)/' for root directory to, for example, '(3,0,0)/' to launch from SCSI drive #3. To make the change of setting effective, you then need to leave A/UX Startup and relaunch it, but after that it will always boot A/UX from drive #3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mat Davis (davism@vtopus.cs.vt.edu) Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech -------------------------------------------------------------------------------