Since my Perfomra 475's hard disk appears to be broken 
, I had decided that there was another way I could use my mac. My plan was as follows:
I had made two disks-startup, and extras. Startup contained all the files that the mac needs to boot (i.e. system, finder and system enablers), that's all. Extras has all the control panels, extentions, apple menu, and so forth.
My idea was to boot from the startup disk, create a RAM disk of about 2 MB, copy the extras disk in, and reboot from the RAM disk. Yipee! My floppy drive is now free for running programs/saving data!
However, when I went to create a RAM disk, the Memory control panel would only let me set a size of up to 1 MB, which is not even big enough for a basic system folder (my mac has 4MB in total).
Why is this and is there anything I can do about it :?: ?
P.S. The hard drive works occasionally, so feel free to suggest things which would need that to create, but not use (i.e. if I need to boot from the hard disk for some setup thing, that's fine, but I can't always run from it).
, I had decided that there was another way I could use my mac. My plan was as follows:I had made two disks-startup, and extras. Startup contained all the files that the mac needs to boot (i.e. system, finder and system enablers), that's all. Extras has all the control panels, extentions, apple menu, and so forth.
My idea was to boot from the startup disk, create a RAM disk of about 2 MB, copy the extras disk in, and reboot from the RAM disk. Yipee! My floppy drive is now free for running programs/saving data!
However, when I went to create a RAM disk, the Memory control panel would only let me set a size of up to 1 MB, which is not even big enough for a basic system folder (my mac has 4MB in total).
Why is this and is there anything I can do about it :?: ?
P.S. The hard drive works occasionally, so feel free to suggest things which would need that to create, but not use (i.e. if I need to boot from the hard disk for some setup thing, that's fine, but I can't always run from it).