On Friday, Jan 3, 2003, at 00:54 Europe/London, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
> Why a IICI? Convenient Example. Apple used to sell them as workgroup servers for Mac clusters using Pluses and SEs. They used a remote boot system that ran off the IIci hard disk. Must have been painfully slow but it worked. > And you don't need any necessary tools on it. You only > need to have a shared drive containing system 6 and the applications > you want to load (max 124 MB) Very true. Automation with an Applescript would help but that's require System 7 to do the booting and installing. >> The >> next problem you confront is writing the data BACK to the shared drive >> at shutdown! > > The ram disk utility will deal with that too! Aha, if that tool exists (something *like* Connectix Maxima came to mind, as I have it on disk) for System 6.0.8 then this could well be done. I can bare-bones test it on a non-compact Mac (tomorrow!! - It's 2am and I've just written a mini-essay on my deep seated reasons for liking Apple) if someone will give me the right RAM Disk util. for System 6, is it on S6H Marten? -- Mark Benson AIM - SilValleyPirate Visit FlatPackMacs online: <http://fpm.gotdns.com> Visit my Homepage: <http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson> Vintage Macs List Nanny "Never send a human to do a machine's job." -The Matrix -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
