Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU!MQUINN%UTCVM From: MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Autoload of ProDOS8? Message-ID: <9011271454.AA24827@apple.com> Date: 27 Nov 90 14:46:35 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 38 On Mon, 26 Nov 90 00:13:10 GMT said: > Does anybody know of a file which can be put in the System.Setup >directory to force GS/OS to load ProDOS8 into memory on the boot? I only >have one 3"1/2 drive, and it's annoying to switch disks a few times the >first time you want to run a ProDOS8 program. Since it stays resident >after that, I assume there must be some way to tell it to load in right >from the start, to save the disk swapping. I don't know of a 'file' that will do it, but there's an incredibally easy 'method' of doing it. Here's what you do: 1. Rename the file ProDOS in the root directory to something else, say "ProDOS2". 2. copy the P8 file from the system directory to the root directory. 3. rename P8 to ProDOS 4. make a simple BASIC program that starts up ProDOS2 10 D$=CHR$(4) 20 ?D$;"-PRODOS2 and save it as STARTUP in the root directory. 5. (optional) you might want to make a menu in the STARTUP BASIC program that let's you choose between ProDOS 8 and GS/OS. I have one like this on one of my HD cartridges with an MS-DOS partition on it for the PC- Transporter. I have a menu with 3 choices: Apple //e, Apple //gs, IBM. It's extremely convenient. I don't have to go through GS/OS to start PCT. >-- > Christopher Neufeld....Just a graduate student | > neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca Ad astra! | S = k log W > cneufeld@{pnet91,pro-micol}.cts.com | Boltzmann's epitaph > "Don't edit reality for the sake of simplicity" | ---------------------------------------- Michael J. Quinn University of Tennessee at Chattanooga BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com