Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!sage.cc.purdue.edu!ericm From: ericm@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Mulholland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Thanks, and more chat... Message-ID: <3672@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 13 Jan 91 18:27:29 GMT References: Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 34 In article SHBOUM@MACALSTR.EDU writes: > 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 I may be mistaken, but I think the Volcans can do this. The new rom for the RamFast is expected to have 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 Booting GS/OS or directly to ProDos 8 can be done on one partition. In Nibble a year ago, they printed a program called Smartboot 8/16 (not to be confussed with another program called Smartboot) that checks the caps lock key when you boot and depending on its postion, which OS you get. I use it a lot, one example is when I install a desk accesary that crashes the system when I boot. I just press the caps, reboot and tell basic.system to delete that file. (Works as long as it isn't forked) > 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 It's a limit of ProDos and without other FSTs for directly connected hard drives, the limit for GS/OS as well. > 3) To the ellusive person who has the FTA programming manual, I'd >really like to get a copy of it as well!!! It sounds like a great book, I haven't heard any word from the person making the translation. I hope it is still going through, I'd like to snatch up a copy myself. ____ Y_,_|[]| Eric Mulholland {|_|_|__| ericm@sage.cc.purdue.edu //oo--OO ...!pur-ee!sage.cc!ericm