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Subject: Thanks, and more chat...
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Date: 13 Jan 91 07:52:00 GMT
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	First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who responded to my question 
about installing GS/OS on a RAM Drive. I never thought that the drive had to 
be reformatted to have the boot blocks. Of course, it never occured to me that 
they weren't there in the first place. Why does the Ram Disk work this way?
Also, just a couple more questions that I forgot to ask in the last message.

	1) Although I do not currently own a hard drive yet {getting there!},
I am interested to know if you can change the partition to boot off of. This
would be really helpful because then you could boot to a Prodos 8 system to
run the programs  that would not work under GS/OS, among other things. I
remember when the old Sider drives use to talk about their DOS 3.3 partitions,
but under ProDOS, the partition would be next to useless except for the
storage of files, so they had to have a way to boot to it.

	2) Is the 32 Meg Partition size for hard drives the absolute maximum 
for the II series, or is that just what ProDOS is limited to right now? If it 
isn't, can ProDOS or GS/OS to be modified to handle larger volumes? I remember 
a few years ago, the Mac had a similar problem where the largest volume it 
could have was 64 Megs, but Apple fixed that...

	3) To the ellusive person who has the FTA programming manual, I'd 
really like to get a copy of it as well!!!

Thanks again,
							Hal

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