Re: IIgs question.

[Hoser <hoserNOSPAM@tnsf.net>]

Thanks for your response David.

David Empson wrote:
> 
> This won't work.  For starters, you don't need to set slot 7 to
> AppleTalk in a ROM 3, unless you are running a particular software
> package which assumes "I'm on a IIgs, therefore AppleTalk must be in
> slot 7".  This is very rare.  It should be sufficient to set slot 1 to
> AppleTalk, and leave slot 7 set to "Your Card".

Yes you're right, that was my mistake.  I had a Woz edition IIGS configured
to boot from slot 5 and then find the file server on the network.  I just
got a ROM Rev 3 not long ago and I've been playing with its slot settings.

If I tell it to boot from AppleTalk it will look for the server, although
it won't find it.

> To boot from AppleTalk on the ROM 3, IIgs, you must set the startup slot
> to "AppleTalk".  It will probably not boot if you set it to start from
> the slot number that happens to be where AppleTalk is located.
> 
> Is your Mac running the AppleShare server software, or just File
> Sharing?

Right now the Mac is just running File Sharing.  I don't have AppleShare
installed, and it looks like that is what I will need.

> To boot an Apple II over the network, the server must be running
> AppleShare 2.0 or 3.0.x, with Apple II boot support installed and
> enabled, and appropriate system software for the Apple II installed onto
> the server.
> 
> Later versions of AppleShare (or any version of AppleShare IP) do not
> support booting an Apple II over the network, but you can still access
> the server from a locally booted Apple II.
> 
> AppleShare 2.0 takes over the whole machine, so it isn't much use unless
> you have a spare Mac.  (It also runs under System 6.0.x, and won't work
> on recent machines).  AppleShare 3.0 requires System 7.0 or later, and
> is able to share the Mac with other programs, though it tends to be
> somewhat of a resource hog (more so than File Sharing).

I'm using the Mac as a printer server with LocalTalk Bridge, and am running
a couple of 24/7 applications on it.  It looks like I'll just have to find
AppleShare 3.0.x to accomplish what I'm trying to do.  Any ideas where I
would find this?

I don't use the IIGS very often.  If AppleShare takes too many clock cycles
I suppose I could turn it off when I'm not using it.

Incidentally, will AppleShare allow more than one IIGS to boot from it at a time?


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