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Spectre Menus
(see Figure 9, page 78). This way, you can quickly determine what
partitions are enabled/ disabled, what drives you have online, and if a
drive is functioning/responding.
This menu also has "check marks" by partitions that are "switched
on". You can switch a partition on or off just by clicking on it. Only
partitions which are Spectre mountable are visible. The first activated
partition is the one you will boot from, so it needs System/Finder
'1nstallcd" on it, using the Apple Installer program.
Atari drives (drives with Atari partition tables) are marked with
the Atari symbol at left, whereas real Apple Macintosh drives are not
so marked. The Spectre will recognize Apple-SCSI fonnatted hard disks and
use them correctly.
An Extremely Cool Trick
Sometimes it's a great advantage to be able to use different
Systems and Finders. For instance, Finder 5.3/System 3.2 uses little
memory, but doesn't support CDEVs or lNITs; Finder 6.1/System 6.0.2
uses lots of memory, supports CDEVS and INlTs, but sound won't
work on it at the moment. And so forth.
If you fecI like it, set up your hard disk this way. Put two or three
1-2 megabyte partitions at the start of your Spectre partitions. Put
Finder 5.3/System 3.2 on the first little partition, Finder 6.0/System 4.2
on the second, Finder 6.1 /System 6.0.2 on the third. Then, use this
menu to enable just one of the three "boot" partitions; you can thus
quickly and easily flip back and forth between different
System/Finders.
Floppy Disk Menu
Format: This allows you to format floppies into Spectre or
Macintosh format (see Figure 12).
You select the drive to be formatted, single or double sided, and
whether to format into Spectre (modified ST) format or into Mac (GCR)
format. (The Mac format is only available if you are using the Spectre
GCR.)
The formatting will begin when you click on the format menu; if
any errors are encountered, an error message will be shown. You do
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