Re: Help making apple IIgs bootdisk

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

drummerkidd420@my-deja.com writes ...
> 
> Ok,
> I have a IIGS I just bought, it has no boot disk
> or anything.  I want to know how to make a boot
> disk for it.  I have a windows pc, a classic II,
> and a plus with and external 800k drive so I got
> the image of the net with my pc, used Basilisk II
> to copy to a mac disk, I put it on my classic II
> and used the external 800K drive to put the image
> on the disk using Disk Copy 4.2.  Except when it
> tries to copy the disk I get "error (-67) error
> occured while copying/verifiying disk"  And it
> won't write the disk, is their something special
> i need to do that i'm not doing?

     Not sure. According to the Basilisk II home page (at 
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/B2Main.html ) the emulator supports only
1.44MB diskettes. That could be a problem when transferring the downloaded file
via your Mac's 800k drive.

     The best way to transfer files downloaded to a PC is via a NULL modem
connection to the IIgs. This also lets you use IIgs stuff (like 3.5" and 5.25"
disks as well as file collections) in plain shrinkit files.

     A NULL modem connection requires hardly any hardware-- just a modem cable
from the IIgs modem serial port connected to a NULL modem adaptor connected to
a modem cable from a PC COM port. For information about setting up and doing
NULL modem transfers, see http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2T1TCOM.html .

     The IIgs can boot several kinds of disks and a number of OS's. Some
popular choices include DOS 3.3 5.25" disks, ProDOS 5.25" disks, ProDOS 3.5"
disks, and GS System 3.5" disks. (Diskettes used should be double density --
DD-- types.)  It can also boot ProDOS or GS System from hard disk.

     The current GS System disks are available from many sources. (See info at
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2APPLICS.html#018 .)  However, you do not
need to boot the current version of IIgs System to use your II gs. Quite a few
good utilities, games, and other kinds of programs are available on disks which
boot ProDOS or DOS 3.3.

     You can find out more about your IIgs in the newsgroup FAQs at
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs5MAINHALL.html#013 .


> Please help me
> and e-mail me:
> 
> gmarvel@ec.rr.com
> 
> Please e-mail me if you can help!
> 
 ....

     Okay; I'll email a copy. Even so, to have the best chance of getting the
most help, you are probably better off discussing this in the open on the
newsgroup.



Rubywand