Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncc!alberta!ubc-cs!faculty.cs.ubc.ca!manis From: manis@faculty.cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Magic Sac and Hard Drive Message-ID: <2603@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 16 May 88 19:30:01 GMT References: <8805141232198DE.BDWZ@Mars.UCC.UMass.EDU> <930@elmgate.UUCP> Sender: nobody@ubc-cs.UUCP Reply-To: manis@faculty.cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 22 Jeff Gortakowsky mentioned that he'd had trouble installing a hard disk system under Magic Sac. So did I; I called Data Pacific, and they advised me that you have to go through a longwinded process to install it. The basic problem is that Apple's HD20 driver assumes there's a system on a hard disk, if it's connected. Apple disks (and compatibles) all come with a system folder; Atari drives don't (some trivial licencing problem :-). What you have to do is to create a tiny little partition (1MB or so) formatted with the Mac (flat) file system. Copy your system to that (using a floppy system disk with no HD20 driver on it). Then reboot with another disk *with* HD20, copy that system to your real partition, and you're away. This is a dumb way of doing it, but blame Apple, not David Small. Vincent Manis | manis@cs.ubc.ca The Invisible City of Kitezh | manis@cs.ubc.cdn Department of Computer Science | manis@ubc.csnet University of British Columbia | {ihnp4!alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}! <> | ubc-cs!manis