Apple ][ (clone) disk booting

[Jules Richardson]

Morning,

What's the normal procedure to boot a floppy from an Apple ][? I'm just taking 
a look at my Mitac [1] clone (with a view to selling it) and got curious as to 
whether it'd boot a standard Apple DOS system disk.

If powered up with a drive connected the spindle motor starts and it'll step 
the drive head back to track 0 - but nothing more.

On the one hand, it's entirely possible that the machine isn't a close enough 
clone to work with standard Apple DOS (that wouldn't surprise me at all, in 
fact) - but on the other, maybe I'm just missing some standard key combination 
to magically boot from the drive... (whilst I've got an Apple ///, I've never 
used an Apple ][ in my life)

I can hit CTRL-reset and the machine will drop to BASIC; is there a normal way 
of booting (or at least bringing up a dir) a floppy from BASIC on a genuine ][?

[1] Quite an impressive machine. Has some flavour of far-east legends on the 
key fronts, as well as regular ASCII (we had a discussion about it on here 
once, but there were conflicting opinions on what language it actually was). 
Built-in disk controller, joystick port, tape, TV modulator, 80-column card. 
There's a little backplane which can be plugged into the machine's expansion 
port and gives you five Apple ][ card slots, too.

cheers

Jules