Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!dcw From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Hello and comments... Message-ID: <1991Jan12.191743.14894@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 12 Jan 91 19:17:43 GMT References: Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Organization: MIT Spoken Language Systems Group Lines: 19 In article SHBOUM@MACALSTR.EDU writes: >Finally, I've got a stupid questions to ask, but it needs to be asked... If I >have a 1600K Ram Disk, How can I install GS/OS on to it so I can boot from it? >I've copied the files and even tried installing it but when I try booting >from Ram Disk, the computer says "Not a startup device." > >Thanks... > Hal You have to actually format the RAM disk. Just creating it does not put boot block on it. Boot the finder, ERASE the RAM disk (This will put boot block on it), and then use the installer to put GS/OS on it (don't just drag the files over). -- Dave Whitney Computer Science MIT 1990 | I wrote Z-Link and BinSCII. Send me bug dcw@lcs.mit.edu dcw@mit.edu | reports. I still need a job. Send me offers. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" --Binky (aka Matt Groening)