Re: What is needed to set up Apple II Network, besides Digicards & Hard Drive?

[obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)]

	Yes, the district had a district license, was given the software and manual. 
However, inside the manual, the instructions for installing the programs on a
single hard drive, rather than a network, are comprised of a single
instruction:  Contact MECC on how to install onto a single hard drive.

	I spent a lot of time on the phone with MECC's technical support.  The guy
promised to send me all sorts of documentation, but nothing ever came.  He took
down the serial number and version of the district's MECC Network Copy Disk,
but other than noting that it was a more recent revision than what he had
himself, no other support was forthcoming.

	I've tried to install programs with the network copy disk myself.  It does set
up a launching menu and installs programs onto the hard drive, but the system
crashes when the menu tries to launch a program.  From what I can remember, the
network copy disk tries to create a partition within a partition on the hard
drive (sort of like Tony Diaz's program that allows DOS programs on a FOCUS
Drive.  The fellow on the phone told me that there was a lot of figuring to do,
and in reflection, he was probably talking about determining the space to
reserve on the partition for the MECC programs.  I was still pretty green at
hard drives back then.

Jay