Re: GEOS on a GS or Mac LC IIe card?

["Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com>]

"Mike Pfaiffer" <pfaiffer@mts.net> wrote in message
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> Rodney Hester wrote:
>
> > Has anyone tried to install GEOS to either of these environments?  My
> > experience:
> >
> > On the GS, GEOS can only see the first ProDOS partition (of two) - which
is
> > unfortunate, as it is also my GS/OS System partition.  GEOS put its
system
> > files in my System folder (which didn't break anything), but it's messy.
I
> > was completely unable to get GEOS to live happily anywhere else, trying
all
> > sorts of manual hacking/copying.
> >
> > On the LC IIe card, GEOS is unable to see my SmartPort ProDOS partition
at
> > all, making it completely impossible to even begin the installation
> > procedure.
> >
> > Anyone else ever tried this and have any pointers/solutions?
>
> Sounds as though GEOS is 8 bit software. This is why it only sees the
> first two partitions on your GS. Test this by going into basic.system
> and see how many you can find from there. As to why it won't work on the
> emulator, I haven't a clue. I suspect it might be due to the nature of
> the way things are stored on the hard drive.

Actually, it doesn't even see the first two - only the first one.  How can I
"look" for the drives after having launched BASIC?  (I am regrettably still
somewhat Apple-illiterate).

Rodney