Re: [WinMac] iMac RAM boot (was: Floppyless)
Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 05:58:18 -0500
Oops! My spell-checker changed the word "journaling" to "journalism." This
is a pretty important point to the post, so I'm correcting it.
Here is the corrected text...
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And you damn well better have a(n) UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) to
cover for power line glitches... I wiped out a Quadra 800 once doing this
trick. Remember, HFS and HFS+ is *not* a transactional or journaling file
system, unlike NT and BeOS, respectively.
Cheers!
Dan
At 12:32 PM 2/9/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm assuming the iMac has RAM disk. How about booting from RAM:
>
> Open your Memory Control Panel
> Set the RAM Disk to ~20/30 MB
> Reboot your system
> (Minimally), copy the System and Finder from your HD to RAM disk
> Bless the System Folder on your RAM Drive (Startup Disk)
> Restart.
>
>This will boot from RAM, leaving your HD unlocked.
>
>I use this regularly on my Macs I support here and it works great. On my
>support server, I have three folders that have complete, generic system
>folders with network support. I identify which system folder I need to
>duplicate (PowerComputing, PowerMac, 68040), copy from the support server to
>the RAM drive, bless it, and go.
>
>DP
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