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- From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Sys 7 Startup disk fiasco
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.130725.3147@otago.ac.nz>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 00:07:25 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.133842.17627@news.duc.auburn.edu> <1992Jul21.201706.14511@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
- Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- stu5s11@bcrka280.bnr.ca (David Simmons 1342678) writes:
- [...]
- > There's actually a third semi-solution. If you type
- > Shift-Command-X-O on booting, it boots from a ROM disk.
- > You can then put your application on a floppy and use
- > it only for the floppy.
-
- Only on Classics. Not much use if you have a lab full of LCs.
-
- > What I'd like to see is a special disk that you insert
- > and sllows you to boot of a network. Something like
- > UNIX workstations do, where there are diskless nodes
- > that contain no hard disk storage, and everything
- > is read of a network server.
-
- You can get cards now for the LC (at least) which let you do
- this.
-
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