Re: Another Newbie IIgs User

[processoroverclocked@33mhz.cjb.net (Jon Bettencourt)]

In article <394E9411.D514D46D@bytebucket.com>, "Steven M. Fish"
<iigs_nospam@bytebucket.com> wrote:

> 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.

Actually, the only Macs that can't make bootable ProDOS disks are the
iMacs with optional external floppy drives. Any other Mac can format it
just fine. You just have to find the right way to do it (on my PowerMac
7100/66, formatting it using DiskCopy doesn't work, while formatting it
through the Erase Disk command in the Finder does work). The right way to
do it varies from computer to computer.

> 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?

Like I said, what is enough varies depending on what Mac you have. On my
Mac, you have to transfer the disk image data to the disk, copy all the
files now on the disk to a folder on the hard drive, reformat the disk as
ProDOS from the Erase Disk command in the Finder, and copy the files back.

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