Re: Netbooting an Apple IIgs from netatalk

[Ivan X <ivan@ivanx.com>]

On Nov 15, 8:29 am, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/2010 06:05 PM, pitz wrote:
>
> > I "re-discovered" (meaning stuff I knew before but forget if I haven't
> > used it for too long) that the ZipGS has compatibility settings in
> > relation to AppleTalk.  I found that copying the ZipInit and
> > ZipGS.Resetter files to the System.Setup folder on my netboot
> > environment got rid of the network disconnects.  According to the
> > ZipGS docs I've read again, the ZipGS has to be temporarily disabled
> > (slowed down) when accessing the AppleTalk network, and this is what
> > the ZipInit patch does.  I hope that that's also the problem with your
> > setup.
>
> Well, in my case the disconnects are happening when booted from the local
> drive.  I dug out my Zip support diskette and browsed the READMEs.  For
> machines booted from local drives that simply access the Appleshare service,
> they imply that ZipGS.Resetter is not required for OS > 5.04 (I use 6.0.1).
>
> For laughs, I tried copying in the ZipGS.Resetter.  No change.  It still drops
> the session in about 2 minutes.
>
> Are you sure that ZipInit is particular to Appleshare networking?  I thought
> that was where the default Zip settings are kept to restore them at boot.
>
> Steve

Thought I'd weigh in on this. My IIGS is a ROM 03 and has absolutely
no cards in it and only a single 800K floppy attached. (I'm kind of
a //e guy.) I set my netboot startup app to be BASIC.SYSTEM. I netboot
from the GS, and type 10 ? CHR$(4);"CAT":GOTO 10, and RUN it. Within
2-3 minutes it hangs, on either speed. But on my IIe, it runs forever.

This is kind of a bummer because I'd really like there to be a cheap
and easily available bridge for netatalk. The Etherwave and iPrint
seem suitable for a IIe, but for a IIgs, it seems a little less clear.
And don't even get me started on the AsanteTalk...