Re: GEOS...and a problem.

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

Hmm. I wish I could find out how and what it installs and make my own
'GEOS.SYSTEM' file. Being able to open GEOS from a drive under GS/OS would
be so convenient. How do you know if you have the copy protected/non copy
protected version? And does GEOS always run so dog-slow, or is it actually
zippy in some configurations? And I could have sworn that you could run
GEOS in color, but now I'm hearing that you run it in monochrome (emulator
specific detail, I suppose, because Bernie turns it into a mishmish of
colors and unreadable text...but I'd swear I remember GEOS being in
color...)
> labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:
> 
> >Has anyone here tried using GEOS within an emulator, like Bernie II?
> >I may be doing something wrong, but it refuses to install onto a ProDos
> >format Hard Disk 'image'. It simply reports 'missing or unformatted disk'.
> >Is there some sort of preparation I am supposed to do before trying to
> >install GEOS onto a hard disk?
> 
> You can't install it onto modern "Smartport device" hard drives
> which includes SCSI hard drives for the IIGS and Bernie
> images.
> 
> The original (copy protected) version of GEOS was designed
> with hard drives like the Sider in mind with proprietary
> interfaces.
> 
> GEOS was updated and later (non copy protected) versions
> could be installed in an SCSI hard drive, but I didn't upgrade
> before they stopped publishing it.
> 
> Instead of installing the GEOS operating system, you can
> copy the GEOS files to the hard disk (image).  That way,
> you still need to boot from floppy, but at least you can run
> GeoWrite, GeoPublish, and other programs from the
> hard drive.