kdmoen@watcgl.UUCP (08/25/87)
woody@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (William Edward Woody) writes: >About changing the System Folder to something over the network: it can't >be done currently. You must run off a network using a floppy disk or >a hard disk local to the Mac containing the system folder. Not true. Here at the University of Waterloo there is a network of Macintoshes that share a single large hard disk over a network. The disk is partitioned into multiple volumes; there are a number of shared volumes with names like "Applications" and "Games" that can be shared by several Macintoshes at once, and there is also one non-shared volume for each Mac on the network containing the system folder for that Mac. When one of these Macintoshes is rebooted, it must first be booted off of a floppy disk, then a procedure must be followed that switches the startup volume from the floppy disk to the appropriate private system volume on the network. The networking software used to be MacServe; now it is MacJanet, a networking program which was developed locally. -- Doug Moen University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab UUCP: {ihnp4,watmath}!watcgl!kdmoen INTERNET: kdmoen@cgl.waterloo.edu