Re: Another Newbie IIgs User

["Steven M. Fish" <iigs_nospam@bytebucket.com>]

You're getting closer, but there's still a few things in your way to
successfully booting your IIgs.

You'll have to find a really old Mac with 800K floppy drives (i.e. not High
Density or 1.44M floppy drives) to make your ProDOS disks.  If you format ProDOS
disks in a newer Mac and transfer the disk images you've downloaded to these
ProDOS disks, they still will not work in your IIgs.  I've tried.

I'm not sure if formatting the disks would be enough. In other words, I'm not
sure if you have to transfer the disk image data using the old Mac or if
formatting with the old 800K drives is enough.  Anybody?

If there's a utility out there that would let modern Mac or PC machines
successfully format ProDOS disks for the IIgs, I would love to learn about
them.  I'll also caveat by saying I'm new back to the Apple II world after a 15+
year hiatus, so I will defer to others with more experience.

I recently ordered the FocusDrive IIgs 340 MB drive (available at
http://www.allelec.com/harddiap.htm) and I'm really hoping it shows up today.
This takes some of the pressure off while I continue trying to make successful
GS/OS boot disks.  If you can't afford this hard drive, you can buy a set of
GS/OS floppies from ByteWorks (http://www.byteworks.org/APDA/apda47.htm) for $12
with documentation and $8 without.

Steven M. Fish

DaffyD wrote:

> I downloaded the GSOS 6.01 until 7 floppy disks. I'm not sure how to install
> it into the Apple from the floppy drive. I've always been a Windows pc user
> and this Apple IIgs configuration is very confusing to me.
> DaffyD