When I was a kid we had a Mac Plus with only a floppy drive, and it was customary that we would use a boot floppy which would create a RAM disk, copy the system files to that, then eject the boot floppy, allowing the drive to be used for an applications/documents floppy. I just booted up one of those old boot disks and found out that it was running System 6.0.4 and used a program called "RamStart 1.3" by George A. Nelson (20 Aug 1986!) to create the RAM disk during startup. It's rather convenient, as it does everything even before the Finder loads. The contents of the boot floppy:
Finder (6.1.4) - 107k System (6.0.4) - 348k Finder Startup - 1k General - 13k ImageWriter - 38k Keyboard - 2k Mouse - 4k Multifinder - 50k Pyro! - 10k RamStart 1.3 - 31k Sound - 4k Word Settings (4) - 2k --------------------------------- Total Used: 620K On Jun 9, 6:16 am, tendim <ten...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've got a Mac Plus with 4MB of RAM, and an external floppy. I'm > currently using an HD with it, but would like to see if I can get it > up and running with only floppies. So far, I've managed to get it up > and running, with Internet access with: > > - System 6.0.8 minimum install > - Asante EN/SC Drivers > - MacTCP 1.1.1 > > My ideal minimum setup, on a single 800kb disc, would be: > - AppleTalk/AppleShare - so I can talk to my other Classic Macs > - Asante EN/SC Drivers - for Ethernet > - MacTCP - For TCP/IP > - LaserWriter driver - so I can print stuff > > I did some hunting on System 6 Heaven, and the examples for a pure > floppy system revolve around 6.0.5, not 6.0.8. Can anyone suggest > why? Does System 6.0.5 have a smaller footprint than 6.0.8? Better > yet, can someone recommend how to cram the above ideal setup onto a > 800kb disc, using any System? > > Thanks for any input! > -Patrick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vintage-macs-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
