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From: phil@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ROM Disk (was Re: Resedit)
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.124155.3976@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Nov 90 11:41:55 GMT
References: <10123@ur-cc.UUCP> <1990Oct30.231717.29002@hoss.unl.edu> <1990Oct31.235912.18133@news.iastate.edu>
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In article <1990Oct31.235912.18133@news.iastate.edu>, sylveste@iastate.edu (Sylvester Timothy J) writes:
> The ROM Boot Disk actually exists and it works.  I saw it on a Mac Classic this
> morning. To boot off of the ROM disk, start the MAC while holding down the
> Command-Option-X-O keys.  The ROM disk has version 6.0.3 of the system.
> All nine files mentioned in Mac the Knife are there.

<gasp!!>  I just tried it on a Classic that I'm looking after for a colleague -
and it *does* work.  You can set the startup disk to be the ROM system disk -
and then after that it will start with that, and your hard disk or floppy disk
isn't used for the system disk.  (you need to use the magic invocation given
above to get the ROM system disk to appear to begin with though).

Wow!  I often heard it suggested (I *even* suggested it myself) that Apple
should put a system on ROM to give a "diskless" machine - it appears to have
been done, but without anyone telling us!!

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