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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: Copying System 5.0 to /ram5
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Date: 4 Sep 90 23:17:00 GMT
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If I may clear things up:

1. To boot from /ram5, you have to get the 'boot blocks' onto it. This is NOT
	done when the GS powers up or is cold-started. It IS done when you
	format that ramdisk using ANY utility program that recognizes it as
	a formattable device (Shrinkit doesn't if it isn't 800K -- bleah).
2. To boot GS/OS from a bootable /ram5, you must copy the FORKED FILES properly
	with either a disk-to-disk block copy OR with a file copier that can
	deal with Storage Type 5. I don't know if anything besides the Finder
	can do this.

It is the storage type 5 files that P8 utilities corrupt, and not the finder's
data or icon files.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu