Re: more gs questions

[doug holverson <dholvrsn@netins.net>]

> From: "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>
> Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:41:34 GMT
> Subject: Re: more gs questions
> 
> "doug holverson" <dholvrsn@netins.net> wrote in message
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>> I got one of my freebee Apple II GS's to run, booting off a floppy called
>> "Start-up". However all it does is start up in ProDOS 8 V1.2 and then
>> immediately automatically loads a 1986 version of Appleworks. What to I
> need
>> to learn and do before I can do something useful with this thing?
>> 
> 
> That must be a Appleworks boot disk.  When you exit to
> Prodos, you can tell it what app to load after that.  Select
> Basic.system as the application to load.

I get this far and I get a "PATH/FILENAME NOT FOUND" error.

> That will get you
> back to the Prodos prompt.  You can find out the contents
> of a disk using
> 
> CAT,S#,D#
> 
> For a 3.5 disk, the disk drive is in S5 and for a 5.25 is in S6.
> If there is only one of each drive, then you would only have a D1
> for each size.  The second drive of each type is D2.  Make sure
> that the 3.5" drives are connected first before the 5.25" drives.
> 
> For a directory of a 3.5 use:  CAT,S5,D1
> For a directory of a 5.25 use: CAT S6,D1
> 
> Using Command(Apple)/Control/Escape will take you into the
> control panel.  This is often useful later to set RAM disk and
> the clock.
> 
> Look for the utility:  UTILITY.SYSTEM on one of your prodos
> disk.  This will let you copy files and format disk.  To run it,
> you would enter a dash before the name:
> 
> -UTILITY.SYSTEM
> 
> Then format a disk and copy these files to the new disk to make
> a clean boot disk:
> 
> BASIC.SYSTEM
> PRODOS
> 
> Then boot the computer using this disk.  From there you can then
> download stuff to your PC and using a serial port null modem, transfer
> disk images to your computer.  Do you have a stock PC?

I'm using a 266MHz Mac G3 as my main machine.

> Using
> the disk images, you can then make actual working disk.  Do you
> have any blank floppies available?

Lot sorts of them. A shrink wrapped box of 5" floppies even came with all
these freebee Apple IIs. And all sorts of those daisy chain 5" and 3.5"
floppy drives came with them.

I downloaded a bunch of GS system 6.0.1 files from Apple's ftp, but I don't
know what to do about them yet.

DGH
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