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From: burns@cc.gatech.edu (James E. Burns)
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Subject: Mounting Orca/C on a hard drive
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Date: 7 Jun 91 18:57:26 GMT
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Well, I finally got around to buying a hard drive for my IIGS (ROM 01,
1.25 MB): TMS Peripherals Pro105 & RamFast SCSI.  (By the way, TMS
provided good response time & were helpful in answering my questions 
on their 800 number.)

I haven't got much experience with Orca -- it was just too tedious to 
use with a single 3.5 based system.  I want to upgrade to v.1.2, but
first I would like to be assured that I can use it effectively.

Here's the problem: I tried to mount Orca/C to be bootable on one of
my partitions.  The manual (for version 1.0) gives a long, tedious
procedure for doing this from the shell (I note 1.2 has an
installation script -- good idea, but I don't have it yet).  So far I
have tried the following combinations:

  1.  5.0.4 + Orca/C 1.0  (copy with finder)
  2.  5.0.2 + Orca/C 1.0  (copy with Orca Shell)
  3.  5.0.2 + Orca/C 1.1  (copy file-by-file with the finder)

In each case, the boot hangs when trying to execute Prizm.  In case 3,
(I didn't try the others) if I don't put the "PRIZM	U" line in the
LOGIN file I can get into the text based environment OK, but it still
bombs if I type "PRIZM".  Can anyone help here?

I tried calling Byteworks, but their technical support was "out of the
office" until Monday.

jim burns
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College of Computing, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332-0280
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