Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bbn!bbn.com!levin From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Avoiding switchlaunches Message-ID: <43993@bbn.COM> Date: 8 Aug 89 19:45:32 GMT References: <14872@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1306@mtfmi.att.com> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) Organization: BBN Communications Corporation Lines: 18 In article <1306@mtfmi.att.com> mec@mtfmi.UUCP (79153-M.CONNICK) writes: |>In article <14872@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> mdm@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Michael D. McDaniel) writes: |>Hello. I am looking for a way to avoid switchlaunches. I have a hard |>disk and want to boot from a floppy and keep the startup there. But I want... |>Is there any way to do this? | |Run under MultiFinder. MF doesn't allow switchlaunches. Or, if MF is a bad idea, the only other way I can think of is to temporarily disable the hard disk as a system disk by moving the Finder or System file (but not both) out of the System Folder temporarily. /JBL = UUCP: levin@bbn.com (new) or {backbone}!bbn!levin (old) INTERNET: levin@bbn.com POTS: (617) 873-3463 "The night was"