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- From: duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu
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- Subject: Re: GEOS 1581 boot disk?
- Date: 1 Jan 93 13:08:10 EDT
- Organization: Pembroke State University
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.130810.1@pembvax1.pembroke.edu>
- References: <Jan.1.08.54.08.1993.7782@math.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Jan.1.08.54.08.1993.7782@math.rutgers.edu>, leahy@math.rutgers.edu (Andrew Leahy) writes:
- >
- > I'd like to make a GEOS boot disk for my 1581 disk drive. I've tried
- > using Geo*boot from the Maverick, but I was not successful: The
- > Maverick claims that it has successfully made a boot disk, but when I
- > try to boot from the disk that is created, the screen turns blue and the
- > drive spins. Then I briefly get dumped back where I started and the
- > program starts all over again. This goes on until I turn the computer
- > off. (The disk that is created has the three files it is supposed to
- > have on it, but it isn't formatted as a GEOS disk. Is this usual?)
-
- I had the same problem with Maverick not working - except that it would always
- go off in la-la land when it told me to reboot the computer (for Geos 128
- V2)... *sighs*
-
- > Has anyone encountered this problem or have any suggestions about how
- > to fix it? Barring that, does anyone know of any other way to create
- > a GEOS boot disk for the 1581?
-
- *Grins* I cheated - I went to basic from w/in GEOS and modified a short little
- program to dump the REU to disk, then when I wanted to load it in again I ran a
- short program that loaded all the files and called the reboot128 file. It
- worked to my suprise (I had desktop etc on the REU, along w/ fullof
- applications that I needed). I'm thinking about going back in and putting
- compression as the 128 BURST loads it in in about 1-2mins and I think there may
- be a lot of empty locations... (not sure how the REU is used in Geos).
-
- Note that if you've got a C-64 that this is going to be _VERY_SLOW_ unless you
- can find a fastload cartridge tthat's compatible with GEOS.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- > Andrew Leahy
- > leahy@math.rutgers.edu
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