Re: Wanted: answers for now...

[firead <noneoy@rbiznes.org>]

In article <B57A586D.8977%sheppy@sheppyware.net>, Eric Shepherd 
<sheppy@sheppyware.net> wrote:

> Odds are your 5.25" disks contain DOS 3.3 file systems, or other disk
> formats.  These can't be used in System 5.  Instead, put the disk in the
> 5.25" drive and boot it directly.  You can do this in several ways:

Well, it was already set to the 5.25 drive and it usually spits out  
numbers and letters or just scans forever. Perhaps either all the apps 
have gone bad or the drive is bad. Could be the cause for the original 
owner dumping it. I just wish I knew for sure whether it was really the 
drive. 

> GNO is a shell that runs on top of GS/OS; Marinetti (the IIgs TCP stack) 
> can
> be used from GNO.
>
> No.  It's a preemptive multitasking environment that runs on top of GS/OS
> that uses a command-line shell and API very similar to Unix, but it's not
> really Unix.  It's relatively easy to port most Unix sources to run on it
> though.
> 
> Not sure where you heard anything about 60 MB drives, but you can run GNO 
> on
> a 32 MB partition easily enough.

Well, that all sounds promising. I'm feeling a little more optimisitc. 

One question, do you think 4MB RAM is enough or 8MB if I intend to run 
gno? I ask because I see that 2MB is recommended for GSOS 6.0.


Thanks for all the other info you gave me as well! :-)
I stopped by your site to check out the files and downloaded the 
freeware ones. As soon as I can get them over to an older Mac I try to 
transfer them to the GS but that's a project for later :-)