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Re: System disks for Apple //gs or Localtalk boot?



Raj, if you're not using those 800K installation floppies, I have an
old Mac SE someone gave me that's waiting for a clean install to fix a
software conflict (Error ID=03 on boot).  Let me know!

Jeff Chapman

In article <vg39ms47g6l3e79s294tf5t82dn98dugi9@4ax.com>,
  Raj Wurttemberg <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
> Jon,
>
> I tried your suggestion... didn't work. :( I even dug up some *real*
> DD 800K disks and tried it, still failed. I'm wondering if the Mac
> 7100 1.44MB floppy drive just can't make Apple // readable 800K disks.
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> -Raj
>
> On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 17:34:30 -0800, processoroverclocked@33mhz.cjb.net
> (Jon Bettencourt) wrote:
>
> >In article <p954mscs2ktnv4kd9of388nnaten8fddkl@4ax.com>, Raj
Wurttemberg
> ><nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I've been lurking in this newsgroup for a few days trying to find a
> >> way to make a bootable Apple //gs System Disk so I can run GSOS
6.0.1.
> >> So far I have been able to locate, download, and make the System
Disks
> >> with my old Mac 7100 but when I try to boot the System Disks on the
> >> Apple //gs I get this error, "Unable to load ProDOS" (All caps of
> >> course).  I'm stuck here.
> >
> >Go back onto the Mac, copy all the files from the disk into an empty
> >folder, reformat the disk as ProDOS from the Finder, and copy the
files
> >back.
>
>


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