Re: Clean 'Apple III' --> how to read from Profile-drive?

[louiss@gate.net (Louis Schulman)]

In <39929F97.D5ABF469@topmail.de>, Patrick Schaefer <patrick.schaefer@topmail.de> writes:
>Deacon Blue schrieb:
>
>> How do I read the old content from the Profile, does the harddrive need
>> special drivers?
>
>You have to include the .PROFILE driver into your SOS.DRIVER file. After
>rebooting you will get a volume called /PROFILE/. If not, you will have
>to format the disk using the System Configuration Program's formatting
>routine.
>
>> Is the harddisk not readable from S.OS if the machine has been used only
>> with CP/M?
>
>This is possible. But I would expect a shared volume with two separate
>partitions for SOS and CP/M.
>
>
>Patrick

Yes.  To add a little more helpful detail, you need to use the system
utilities disk, and the system configuration program.  The Apple III uses
a device driver called SOS.DRIVER, which is made up of all the device 
drivers you want to use.  The generic driver doesn't include the profile
driver.  So, you also need the disk that has all the drivers on it, so you
can add the .profile driver.

BTW, if you want to run programs from the Profile, you will need the a
selector program, such as Quark Catalyst or Selector III, or the BOS OS.

It is unfortunately not intuitive and there isn't a lot of good info on the
web about this.

Louis