Re: how to make a boot disk

[marcusdave@aol.com (MarcusDave)]

(Since I know nothing about Apple II, a friend asked me to find some info on
it, so that's why I'm in this newsgroup.)
Is the ProDOS formatting capability of 800K disks on the PowerPC Apple II
compatible?

>>My question is: I have a Pentium running Win95 as my main system right
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>>How do I make a
>>boot/install disk for these older machines????  
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>the long and the short of it is:
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>-->You Can't<--
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>The PC and the Apple ][ line use a fundamentally different method of storing
>the information on a floppy, and therefore, a direct reformat can't be done.
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>The only feasable thing to do is to use a program that allows you to copy a
>file to a Apple via a super serial card or whatever, but you need to have an
>OS
>loaded in order to access the floppy drive in order to save the data you get.
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>The only real way to do it is to get someone with a real machine to copy the
>disk for you. Dos 3.3, Prodos and Pascal are so hopelessly out of date that I
>really can't see Apple caring about people copying their operating systems.
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>(Actually, a copy of Dos 3.3 is on every disk you INITalize and give to a
>friend, so I wonder if that counts as piracy? :) )
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>A side point: I used to think that you had to type INITALIZE to format a disk
>under dos 3.3, and it was only later that I realized that I was formatting a
>disk with a boot program called "ALIZE" :)
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>--Rick Miller N1ZXZ <petscii@spamblock.techie.com>
>Disaster Area Computing Solutions:
> ..."Leaders in yesterday's technology"
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