Re: Boot IIgs from AS server

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Big Bird <geary@bermuda.io.com> wrote in message
news:0%fJ7.9431$2w.436897@bin4.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com...
> In article <WfZI7.596$2M4.177476@news.uswest.net>,
> alais.undercover <who@where.what> wrote:
>
> < I have also experimented with a SE running System 6 then dedicated
> < to Appleshare 2.0 and set up as a Apple II login server.  It worked,
> < but not well.  -Bart
>
> What difficulties did you encounter with the SE and AS 2.0?
>

I don't know about him, but I just got Appleshare 2.0 running on my SE/30. I
installed System 6.0.8, then Appleshare. It didn't ask to install the Apple
II files, so I just dropped them into the server directory, and that worked.
It sets up in a very similar manner to Appleshare 3.  I loaded the net boot
software from my IIgs, as with Appleshare 3. It worked the same, as near as
I could tell.

Maybe the reason he didn't like Appleshare 2 is that you can't do anything
else with the server. It boots straight into the server software, and you
can only run that and the admin software. Closing the server shuts down the
Mac. So you have to boot from another disk to do any normal work. With
Appleshare 3, you can run other apps while the server is working, and start
or shut it down anytime.

Net booting my ROM 1 had the same result as with Appleshare 3, a blue screen
asking for the server hard disk to be inserted.
I'm convinced that it's GS/OS 6.0.1 that's the problem.
-Paul