I would highly suggest an external SCSI drive... This has worked well for me with my Plus. You can run 6.0.8 and not worry about switching floppies and how big it is, if it'll fit, etc. A lot of hard drives from that era were made for the Plus to sit on top of, with the same footprint.
Elliott (Formerly Cyrus) -------------------- Hobbittech.com Mac Specialist - Low Cost Mac Services in AZ On Jun 10, 2009, at 8:36 AM, tendim wrote: > > Thanks everyone for the suggestions so far. > > A question though: If my ideal system folder is, say, 900kb and my > floppy only holds 800kb, how do I get all of the System folder files > to the RAMDisk? Do I have to do a "two stage" load? I.e.: > - Load up as much as I can the first time (including finder) > - Reboot off of the RAMDisk > - Copy files from the 2nd floppy to the RAMDisk (I.e., AppleShare > software, or LaserWriter software) > - Reboot again > > ?? I'm confused how the system folder works; I thought everything had > to be in there *at startup*, and anytime you added stuff you had to > reboot the machine. > > Thanks, > -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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
