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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: System Disk on /ram5 (was:Re: Hello and comments...)
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Date: 14 Jan 91 19:34:29 GMT
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In article <91012.184116AABENSON@MTUS5.BITNET> AABENSON@MTUS5.BITNET writes:
>In response to SHBUOM:
>
>What you need to do in order to boot from your RAMDisk is to first FORMAT
>it.  You may think that this seems silly, because why would you need to
>format a RAM-disk?  Well, the purpose is for it two put BOOT CODE on the

	But if you use DigiCopy GS, that copies the boot code off of the
disk to /ram5..

	Still doesn't work (sometimes)..

	I've also tried the format then INSTALL method, and it doesn't
work..I haven't tried it with 5.04, but up until 5.02, it would give an
Unable to read boot name $0028   (the string might not be correct but
the # definitly is) error.

	So, no dice..
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