Operating
Your Computer
as a Hard Disk
System
Start up
or
reset the
computer
with
the
Boot L>ishc:ts?
tn
Floppy
Drive
When TRSDOS Ready
appears, type tti
is
Minim
and;
DIR :4
rgNTFffl
TRSDOS shows a directory of the files coniained
on
your
Bool
Diskette (assuming
ihal
your lirst
Hoppy drive is Logical
Drm
4,
as determined in
your configuration).
Type:
DIR
:0
fJENlflij
TRSDOS shows
a
directory of
the
hand disk
systems Drive
(assuming
thai
your
primary hard
disk
is assigned as logical
Drive
0).
This is whas
happens;
1- When
you
first
turn on or reset
the computer, it
knows only
about Floppy Drive
G.
It
goes to
Floppy Drive
ffl to find an
operating system.
2.
In
Floppy Drive
0. it finds
your
Boot Diskette This diskette
contained
a
logical drive
configuration file.
The
configuration
file leils
trie computer the number
ol
hard
disk
drives
and floppy
drives
on
your
system. It also
tells ii
the
location of the logical
drives
and the amount
of storage
space each
logical
drive contains.
a.
The
computer
searches the primary hand disk
drive
tor an
opening
system. If
the
hard
disk
is
turned off
or
discon-
nected, an II appears in
the
upper
right
cornet
of Llie
screen.
If the
hard
disk is on but not yet ready
to perform
an operation,
a
blinking
H appears. When the drive is
ready,
Ihe tt
disappears
and I he system begins using
the
hard disk.
4. There
the system finds
TRSDOS.
displays
the
TR
S DO S
Reacts
prompt,
arid
executes your
commands.
With your
system
configured as a hard
disk
system,
you
can now
remove
your Boot Diskette. The computer
con-
tinues
lo
use
the
hard disk system's
drive
numbers
until
you
turn
it
off
or
reset
it. Vbu can use
ihe
DEVICE
com-
mand to
display
the configuration
of your
system.
(See
Model
4Mp
Disk System
Owners
Manual.)
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