Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:37:42 -0700 From: Clark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: network boot
At 4:40 AM +0200 7/13/04, Antonio Rodr=EDguez wrote:Jeff Walther ha escrito:
There was a key combo one could use in System 6 to switch the boot volume after the machine had booted.
Could it be Command-Option-double clic on the Finder/System file? At least, if you had MultiFinder disabled, you could enable it by doing Command-Option-double clic on the MultiFinder init... so maybe this is the method you're referring to.
That sounds right. I haven't done it since I got a hard disk for my Plus. This feature came from the era of floppy only systems. Due to the limited room on floppies one often had different boot floppies for different applications. So to change without restarting you'd insert the new boot floppy, Command-Option double click on Finder (or MultiFinder) on the new disk. This would make the new floppy the "boot" floppy. You could then put away the old boot disk, stick in your data disk and go. What could be simpler.
That sounds like what I remember, Antonio and Clark. Thank you. Now, the question for our original poster would be whether this would work on a system folder which is on a network volume.
It was a definite boon during the floppy only era, before I could afford a hard drive. I had a Plus, no external floppy and 1 MB of RAM. When I upgraded to 2.5 MB of RAM, I found that part of that RAM was better spent as a RAM disk, where I would stash the OS and possibly the application after boot. This made the system way faster, and let me have document only floppies.
Later I added a second floppy drive, got up to 4 MB of RAM and ultimately added a hard drive. But the RAM Disk and switch of active system folder stayed useful, as having the OS on the RAM disk really sped performance.
Jeff Walther
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