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From: kdmoen@watcgl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: System Folder located on a network
Message-ID: <1644@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 13:48:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 25 13:48:23 1987
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woody@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (William Edward Woody) writes:
>About changing the System Folder to something over the network:  it can't
>be done currently.  You must run off a network using a floppy disk or
>a hard disk local to the Mac containing the system folder.

Not true.  Here at the University of Waterloo there is a network of
Macintoshes that share a single large hard disk over a network.
The disk is partitioned into multiple volumes; there are a number
of shared volumes with names like "Applications" and "Games" that can
be shared by several Macintoshes at once, and there is also one non-shared
volume for each Mac on the network containing the system folder for that
Mac.

When one of these Macintoshes is rebooted, it must first be booted off
of a floppy disk, then a procedure must be followed that switches the
startup volume from the floppy disk to the appropriate private system
volume on the network.

The networking software used to be MacServe; now it is MacJanet, a
networking program which was developed locally.
-- 
Doug Moen
University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab
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