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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Disabling internal disk
Summary: Answer to my question
Message-ID: <33906@bbn.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 88 15:03:16 GMT
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In article <33879@bbn.COM> I asked:
|Does anyone remember the magic incantation to boot up an SE with an
|internal HD from a floppy -- and not mount the internal disk?

Three correspondents provided both this incantation and an alternate
method which suits my purposes well enough.

Magic procedure: hold COMMAND, OPTION, SHIFT, DELETE simultaneously
while beginning boot up.  I found this easiest by getting the "save to
turn off your mac" dialog, positioning the mouse, inserting the
floppy, holding the keys, and hitting the mouse with my elbow.

Alternate: after booting off the floppy in the normal fashion, drop
the hard disk icon(s) in the trash.  They will be inaccessible (by
normal means) until you next reboot (I think that there are DAs or
cdevs that can remount them, actually).  This is OK as long as you
don't think there is some INIT on the floppy that might do something
bad to your hard disk.

	/JBL
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