Re: Help me! Booting from the internal floppy disk drive

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From: Chris Cleeland
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1989 23:19

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In article <10966@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> uehara@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Kuniaki Uehara) writes:
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>  [....stuff deleted....]
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>Are there anyone who can teach me how to 'boot' my lovely Mac from the
>floppy diskette first?

Sure -- just keep your hard drive turned off until after the Mac has booted
from the floppy, then turn it on.  Of course, you won't be able to access the
hard drive unless the system on the floppy is up-to-date enough to use the
SCSI port.

Hope this helps!
-- 
Thanks
Chris Cleeland, Tulane University

Disclaimer:  I haven't said anything worth not claiming!!!

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From: cleeland@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Chris Cleeland)
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Subject: Re: Help me! Booting from the internal floppy disk drive
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Date: 5 Jun 89 23:19:49 GMT
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