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Article #43409Help me! Booting from the internal floppy disk drive
From: Kuniaki Uehara
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1989 23:59
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1989 23:59
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Recently, I bought a Macintosh plus and non-Apple external hard disk drive. They work fine except one problem. The problem is as follows: Even though I insert the system diskette into the 3 1/2-inch internal floppy disk drive, of course, it has at least both 'finder' and 'system' files in it, Mac, first of all, searches the 'system' file in the hard disk drive, and 'boot' from the hard disk drive. The floppy icon appears on the Finder desktop when the Mac is 'booted' from the hard disk drive. This means, the floppy diskette is not ejected when booting from the hard disk drive. If I remove the system folder from the hard disk drive, Mac tries to search the hard disk drive first. However, since Mac cannot find the 'system' file in the drive, it, in turn, searches the file in the floppy diskette, and finally 'boot' from the diskette. This problem seems to be not so serious for me, since I usually boot Mac from the hard disk drive, but this problem seems to be strange. Are there anyone who can teach me how to 'boot' my lovely Mac from the floppy diskette first? Thank you in advance.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!orstcs!mist.CS.ORST.EDU!uehara From: uehara@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Kuniaki Uehara) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Help me! Booting from the internal floppy disk drive Message-ID: <10966@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 2 Jun 89 23:59:16 GMT Sender: usenet@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: uehara@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Kuniaki Uehara) Distribution: usa Organization: Oregon State Univ. -- Computer Science Lines: 23