How can I boot a good GS System with no hard disk?
You can boot a decent System 5.0.4 or very modest System 6.0.1 from a 3.5″ diskette. With two 3.5″ drives, you can boot a decent System 6.0.1; but, disk swapping becomes a significant hassle when you want to run most applications. A much better solution is available if you have a 4MB mem expansion card installed. (Actually, you can make do with about 2.5MB of RAM.) You can use a utility named “Flash Boot” by Jerry Kindall. Flash Boot auto-loads System from one or more 3.5″ diskettes to /RAM5 RAM disk and boots it. What you do is create a large enough /RAM5 to hold the System you want to boot. Next, you boot System as usual from diskette(s) and use the Flash Boot utility to prepare /RAM5 and install the auto-loader. Then, you copy the stuff you want to auto-load to /RAM5 and use the Flash Boot utility to create one or more 3.5″ “image disks”. To install and boot System you start by booting from the first image diskette and feed in any others as prompted. System then boots from /RAM5 and
