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From: steele@unc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Multiple startup systems on a HD
Message-ID: <323@unc.cs.unc.edu>
Date: Thu, 7-May-87 12:30:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: unc.323
Posted: Thu May  7 12:30:56 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 05:34:41 EDT
Reply-To: steele@unc.UUCP (Oliver Steele)
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Is it possible to change the blessed folder on a disk?  I'm dreaming of
getting a HD, and would like to be able to start up different configurations--
a System with Trap Timer and MacsBug for program development, one with JClock
and FKey Manager stuff for everyday use, and a vanilla System for Smalltalk
where I can't afford throwing away memory to MacsBug and I don't want VBlank
processes writing on my screen.

I know that I can just boot off a floppy with an alternate system and
double-click to a HD application, or do lots of extraneous copying to
change the file with which the boot blocks are associated, but is there a way
to (1) change the blessed folder without extraneous copying, or (2) restart
the system from scratch from a given System file?

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