Re: OS for GS-- getting Sys 6.0.1 from Apple's ftp site

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

David Phillips writes ...
> 
> Thanks for posting the FAQ's
> My name is David Phillips and I am the Sysop for Nexus BBS run by the Apple
> Macintosh Association of Queensland. We try and support the Apple II area
> as much as we can I have a Rom 3 IIGS with RAM fast scsi and a Zip
> accelerator and High density drive with an internal 170 meg hard drive.
> 
> could yo send me the internet address so that i can downlaod System 6.0.1
> for the IIGS my original copy has gone funny with an error and I would like
> to do a fresh install.
>

 ....


     You can download System 6.0.1 from Apple at ... 

ftp://ftp.apple.com/dts/aii/sys.soft/gs.system.6.0.1/


     The disks are in the from of binscii (.bsc) files of ShrinkIt disk
archive files which include a Binary II header (i.e. binscii-ed .bxy
files).

     As a test, I downloaded sysdisk.bsc, transferred it to the GS via
NUll-modem, and converted it to diskette form. All of the files
Validated as Okay.

     Since, for some weird reason, Apple maintains each disk in
binscii-ed .bxy form, the conversion process takes two steps. First, you
need to run binscii on the .bsc file. I used Jawaid Bazyar's GSCII Plus
NDA to un-binscii sysdisk.bsc. This produced sysdisk.bxy, a Shrinked
disk archive with a Binary II header.

     Next, GS-ShrinkIt was used to unShrink sysdisk.bxy to an 800k
'diskette'-- I used an empty 800k /RAM5 RAM disk for the target diskette
because things go faster than with an actual diakette. This produced the
System 6.0.1 System.Disk. (From here I could have done a whole-disk copy
to get the System.Disk from RAM disk onto an actual 800k diskette.)

     The above procedure should work fine for the other .bsc disk files
in the set.



Rubywand