Re: HELP!! GS/OS 6.0.1 failure!

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Rubywand (rubywand@swbell.net) wrote:

(well, my troubles were quoted here...)
:  ....

:      Try booting GS/OS from a floppy. Go to the Icons/ folder on your
: hard disk boot partition and delete the file named "Desktop".

Hmmm...Once I got booted, I figured I would do that, but I found no such
file.  I did remove the FINDER.DATA file from the root directory.  That
failed to help.

:      You may have other Icons/ folders on other partitions which contain
: a Desktop file. These _may_ need to be deleted to get the one causing
: problems. Usually, scrapping Icons/Desktop on the boot partition clears
: up the glitch.

Well, what I ended up doing, rather than waiting for expert help, was
running a GS/OS 6.0.1 update.  But before I did that, I copied all of the
files from /GEMINI/SYSTEM/.. into /TORNADO/SYSBACKUP/.. .  So I guess the
next thing I need to do is start copying files back from the backup into
the boot partition so that I can get my filename patches back.

:  
: > --Dave Althoff, ][., whose IIgs has never crashed before...

:      My system crashes very seldom. One thing that seems to help is
: using the Quick Launch Finder extra to start most programs. (I delete
: Desktop from the boot partition Icons/ folder whenever I notice that it
: has been created.)

Hmmm...Well, I have not had troubles before using the Finder; in fact,
what I've done is to create a directory called "Aliases" on my HFS drive
(/MAGNUM/) with aliases to all the applications I use most often and just
use that as a launcher.  Unlike apparently a lot of people here, I
actually like the GS/OS Finder...  8-)  Maybe that is because it is so
much better than the Win95 machine I have to use at work...

:            Yippee!!!
: >         /
: >     /^\x       _      *** We'll run it in the snow if we have to! ***
: >    /XXX\      /X\     /X\_      _     /X\__      _     _        _____
: >   /XXXXX\    /XXX\  _/XXXX\_   /X\   /XXXXX\    /X\   /X\      /XXXXX
: > _/XXXXXXX\__/XXXXX\/XXXXXXXX\_/XXX\_/XXXXXXX\__/XXX\_/XXX\_/\_/XXXXXX

"Having fun on the coaster, Rubywand?  Ride it again..."
 (realizing that outside rec.roller-coaster, that is a very strange
  looking .sig...)

--Dave Althoff, ][.
-- 
    /^\        _      *** We'll run it in the snow if we have to! ***
   /XXX\      /X\     /X\_      _     /X\__      _     _        _____  
  /XXXXX\    /XXX\  _/XXXX\_   /X\   /XXXXX\    /X\   /X\      /XXXXX
_/XXXXXXX\__/XXXXX\/XXXXXXXX\_/XXX\_/XXXXXXX\__/XXX\_/XXX\_/\_/XXXXXX