Subject: Re: Help ... Flash Boot
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Steve writes ...
> 
> I have a Apple IIgs system with 1 3.5" 800k drive and 2 5.25" drives.  I
> have some games that are 800k disks that have no room on the disk for
> GS/OS
> on them.  Is there a way to get an barebones GS/OS on the 5.25" disk and a
> Start application type program?
 ....

     You could boot a modest System 5.0.4 or 6.0.1 from 3.5" diskette and put
up with disk swapping while using the game disks. However, there is a better
solution available if you have a 4MB mem expansion card installed. You can
use a utility named "Flash Boot" by Jerry Kindall. Flash Boot auto-loads
System from one or more 3.5" diskettes to /RAM5 RAM disk and boots it.

     What you do is create a large enough /RAM5 to hold the System you want
to boot. Next, you boot System as usual from diskette(s) and use the Flash
Boot utility to prepare /RAM5 and install the auto-loader. Then, you copy the
stuff you want to auto-load to /RAM5 and use the Flash Boot utility to create
one or more 3.5" "image disks".

     To install and boot System you start by booting from the first image
diskette and feed in any others as prompted. System then boots from /RAM5 and
works very much as though it were on hard disk.

     You can find Flash Boot at ...

ftp://24.96.48.134:6502/Cabi_Archives/Utilities/
ftp://tarnover.dyndns.org/cabi/Utilities/ .



Rubywand