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From: Thomas_E_Zerucha@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: RAM disk and Magic Sac
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Date: 22 May 88 16:44:02 GMT
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Quick instructions to get HFS up on hard disk:
 1. Format TWO partitions, one small MFS partition to boot from, and the rest
    to your HFS.  These must be one of the Four "standard" (as opposed to
    Supra's extended ones) partitions.  Use the Magichd program to do this.
    The MFS only needs to be large enough to hold a minimal System file and
    Hard Disk 20 (but I have my own transfer program which can access my
    MFS partition and move files back and forth, so mine is bigger).
 2. Boot from floppies (having prepared two MFS floppies, 400K, beforehand).
    Copy ONLY system and finder to one, and System, Finder, AND Hard Disk 20
    to the other.  Reboot with the disk without Hard Disk 20 (this is needed
    since HD20 likes to eject each drive as it continues the boot).  Now
    Mount your MFS partition (usually shift-F3) and copy System, Finder AND
    HD20 there.
 3. Reboot from hard disk and it should come up, but you then have to add
    System and Finder to your HFS in a system folder to complete the process.

I have removed Finder from my MFS partition, and reduced System to nearly
nothing since it isn't used except for booting (One small DA, no fonts, etc.).
I also have used the resource editor to remove the .sony driver from HD20
(leaving only the dispatch kernel and TFS).  I also removed HD20 from my
HFS since it INIT's from the MFS.