Re: Installing Games on the IIgs Hard Drive, What am I Doing Wrong??

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 2/11/2013 2:09 PM, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
>>> On 2/11/2013 12:02 PM, Tempest wrote:
>>>> Of course even if this works my problem is that my partitions are only
>>>> 30 Megs and the hard drive images are 32 Megs. Something tells me that
>>>> won't work out very well.  I've never tried to repartition a hard drive
>>>> on a IIgs before (mine came that way).  How hard is that to do?
>>> 
>>> I wouldn't bother.  As long as the 32MB image doesn't really have all
>>> 32MB used - i.e. as long as there's some blank space at the end - it'll
>>> work anyway.  And if it is really chock full, the only things that won't
>>> work are the games that are on the "missing" 2MB.
>> 
>> Wouldn't that leave the volume metadata, including the bitmap, incorrect
>> for the smaller actual volume?
> 
> Yes - but only in that final (non-existent) 2MB.  Interactions with the
> bitmap in the lower 30 would still function as normal.  Any allocations
> or access above that would fail in interesting ways.  Kind of like a 64k
> memory map that isn't fully backed with memory.  It's all addressable,
> but it's only really useable when there's something backing it.

So it would be best to run a "disk fixer" like ProSel to clean the volume
up before a game tries to save something. 

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon