Rana Systems Elite Series User Manual
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL DOS ENHANCEMENTS
made a backup copy of it, the backup copy can
also be used.
The Rana DOS Enhancements Diskette does not
contain a copy of DOS and will not boot DOS into
the computer. However, certain areas of the
diskette are initialized ina DOS format, allow-
ing those DOS programs on the Enhancer diskette
to be run once the system is booted from a DOS
master. The Rana Elite Enhancements Disk will
be used to create a new enhanced DOS master
diskette. The system tracks from this diskette
can then be used to create any number of addi-
tional DOS system diskettes that utilize the
desired Rana features, but don't have all the
DOS utilities and demonstration programs occupy-
ing the space the you can put to better use.
The following steps will guide you in creating
your enhanced DOS master and demonstrate some of
the functions of the Rana enhancement utilities.
The additional features of these utilities and a
detailed discussion of their operation is con-
tained in a later section of this manual. Since
the time required to perform the following en-
hancement process does not alter much between
using multi—drives or just one drive, only a
single drive approach to enhancing has been
described.
These instructions detail a very specific ap-
proach to creating an enhanced DOS for any valid
combination of Elite drives, Elite Controllers,
Disk II drives, and Disk Ii controllers which
any user can possibly dream up. This places
upon these instructions an almost impossible
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