Re: Boot IIgs from AS server

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

ground.ecn AppleII Librarian <apple2pd@garp3.icaen.uiowa.edu> wrote
>
> I just want to reiterate that a Rom01 IIGS DOES boot from an Appleshare3.0
> server.  I have booted at different times in the past from GSOS 5.0.4,
> 6.0, and now 6.0.1. I think each of these versions required a different
> AppleII setup disk.  Make sure you are using the proper server setup disk
> with the version of GSOS you are using.  P8 boots probably don't matter
> very much about version compatibility (I don't know). but the SYS16 boot
> is version specific.
>

I'm using the set of 6.0.1 disks I downloaded from Apple, so it's positively
a matched set.

> Hint:  Make sure the path names for the server are prodos legal
> (Alphanumeric + '.'), no spaces, 16chars or less per volume/directory
> level.  I vaguely recall not being able to setup the boot from a directory
> on the server, so I shared the whole volume and the GSOS files are in the
> servers root directory.

I shared the whole volume, but the IIgs boot files are in a folder named
"System". The ROM 1 has no problem finding that, it runs Start.GS.OS, GS.OS,
and GS.OS.Dev for sure. I removed each of those files and got an error
message saying they couldn't be found. Keep in mind that my ROM 3 has no
problem booting with exactly the same setup, so this is related to a
difference between ROM 1 and ROM 3.  (tried two ROM 1's, and other people
have reported exactly the same problem.)

I'll  try dumping the contents of the System folder into the Mac's root.
Thanks for the suggestions.   When I get this sorted out, I'll type up my
findings for the faq.
-Paul