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Re: TOS 1.4 and hard drive booting

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From: Bruce Nelson
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 13:21
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In article <900106.22071062.039461@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) writes:
>Bruce Nelson writes:
>
>>I finally got through to Supra's Tech Support. ....
Larry Rymal writes:
>    I could be wrong, but I think (??).... that Supra is wrong.
>    I have TOS 1.4 in a Mega2 that was upgraded to 4 meg of memory.  By
>allowing the light on the floppy drive to flick on|off then pressing
>the <CNL><ALT><LEFT-SHIFT> key, then I can boot off of my floppy.  
>
>Larry Rymal:  |East Texas Atari 68NNNers| <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>

Supra's procedure (which I won't repeat here) worked, but, as several
other netters also pointed out, your procedure is the correct one.

Thanks, everyone, for your responses.

Bruce Nelson
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From: nelson@kodak.UUCP (Bruce Nelson)
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Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 and hard drive booting
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Date: 7 Jan 90 13:21:56 GMT
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