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Hard Disks and Spectre
hard disk options; we don't want to try to boot off the hard disk.
Press RETURN to start. When prompted to, put a floppy with
Finder 5.3/System 3.2 or later in the floppy drive A, and press
RETURN. If you are using a GeR, this disk can be a Mac disk; with a
Spectre 128, the disk must be in Spectre format. You'll start up Mac
mode, and you'll end up at the Mac Desktop.
At this point, allow me to introduce 8 new buttons, F3-FlO at the
top of your keyboard. Remember how Fl and F2 are used to tell Mac
mode that you are inserting/ejecting a floppy with drive A or B? Well,
F3 inserts the first Spectre hard disk partition, F4 the second, and so
on, up to eight at once.
That means you could access 256 meg of hard disk (32 meg per
part x 8 parts) at once on the Spectre .. .I've only tested to 120 Meg, but
that looks quite solid.
So, press F3 to mount the first 5 megabyte partition. We are not
mounting the 10 megabyte GEMDOS partition at all; GEM partitions
don't enter into the game at all. You can't mount them from Mac
mode.
The hard disk lights will come on, and in a few seconds you'll
have a disk icon for the 5 megabyte drive. Open it up, and sure
enough, there will be "S,OOOK bytes available." (That's S megabytes)
Okay, if you are using a System 4.2/Finder 6.0 or newer version,
run the Installer program included with the System disks from Apple.
It will ask where you want your System Folder put, what kind of Mac
you have, and will set it all up for you on your hard drive. If you have
an earlier System/Finder, just copy the System Folder (at the very
least, System and Finder) from floppy to the hard disk.
When done, you might copy an application or two onto the hard
disk, just for fun.
Okay, time to close down. Just grab all the disk icons (draw a box
around them), and drag them to the trash. Don't worry, we're not
throwing away their data! We're just throwing away their icon, which
forces an eject. This is the best way to eject any kind of disk.
Sometimes, if you do Control-A, Control-E to eject the hard disks,
you'll be asked to "re-insert" one or more hard disk partitions. While a
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