Re: GS/OS and/or ProDOS 8 + AppleShare on a floppy-only IIGS

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

> Calvin Cheng <cxcheng@infospace-inc!.com> wrote:
> 
> : I have a ROM 01 IIGS with 512K of RAM and an 800K floppy drive at home that
> : is hooked up to a PowerMac (MacOS 8.1) thru a Localtalk (PhoneNet) cable.
> 
> : Is there a way I can use the file-sharing on the Mac such that it is
> : accessible from the IIGS running ProDOS 8 and GS/OS?
> 
> : I suppose for GS/OS, I run into the problem of being able to fit the GS/OS
> : on an 800K floppy and also 512K of RAM. As for ProDOS 8, the software might
> : not assist to support AppleShare.
> 
> Unlike on a workstation card equipped //e, ProDOS 8 can't access Appletalk if
> you boot directly into it on a IIgs. You have to boot GS/OS then run ProDOS
> 8. The installer has an option called "appleshare, 3.5 disk" for this purpose.
> It'll fit all the stuff you need to run Appletalk onto a bootable 800K floppy.

Note that it has to leave Finder off the system disk to fit the
AppleShare support files.  You might be able to squeeze it back on by
careful pruning of unnecessary files, but a better solution might be to
run it from the Mac.

> Some unsolicited advice: you really need to get some memory. Even if you stick
> with the same memory card, filling it up with chips will help a lot. And if
> you want to run native software, 1 mb is an absolute bare minimum.

Definitely.  In this case, Calvin won't even be able to use AppleTalk -
System 5.0.4 or later requires at least 1 megabyte of RAM, and System
5.0 through 5.0.2 requires at least 768KB if you want to use AppleTalk.

You might be able to get away with it for System 3.2, but I wouldn't
recommend trying to use ancient system software.

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David Empson
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