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From: leavens@aludra.usc.edu (Justin Leavens)
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Subject: Re: Diskless Classic client?
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Date: 24 Jun 91 17:46:59 GMT
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In article <65Lu41w164w@scgrp.UUCP> djd@scgrp.UUCP (David Dmytryshyn) writes:
>For some reason, I seem to recall seeing that there was some sort of a 
>ROM disk in the Classic which allows it to be an essentially diskless 
>appleshare client. Have I lost it, or is this indeed true...

After turning your Classic on, hold down Command-Option-X-O until you get to
the Finder. You'lll get an icon on the desktop for you ROM disk. This contains
just enough information for a Classic to boot. Go into the Control Panel and
set the ROM disk as the startup disk, and use the Chooser to mount your
Appleshare volume. Now, when you restart, you won't have to hold the keys down,
it will automatically boot off the ROM drive and mount the fileserver volume.

It works fine, except when you have applications that like to write to the
System Folder. Around here, we opt for just booting off a floppy so we can
load a couple of inits on. But if you don't use any inits or cdevs, it's a
good option.

BTW, the ROM disk contains 6.0.7...