Re: guide to setting up netatalk on Ubuntu, with Apple II netboot

[pitz <pitz.wong@gmail.com>]

On Sep 13, 9:49 pm, Hugh Hood <hughh...@earthlink.net> wrote:
[snip]
>
> As sweet as your Cookbook is, your mentioning that you intend to try to
> build a functional Netatalk-Apple II file server on a NAS ( Western Digital
> My Book World Edition) is better still. For those of us with Macs and Apple
> IIs but without a dedicated Linux box, that would be a nice file sharing
> solution indeed.
>

Yes indeed.  Just a week ago, I was playing around with a Seagate
DockStar that is now cheaply available (around ~$25).  My writeup is
in the works.  The DockStar is also an ARM-based device with 128MB of
memory but can use a full Debian install on an attached USB
thumbdrive.  I've got Debian "squeeze" running on it, and have just
installed the netatalk package.  Next step is to upgrade to the latest
netatalk sources.

The DockStar has great potential for IIe/IIgs users.  It takes 9V as
an input source, has 4 powered USB ports, and is about the size of a
deck of cards.  You could literally house it inside the case of your
IIe or IIgs and with some creative wiring, you can maybe put all your
Apple files on an extra thumbdrive and serve it via netatalk from
there -- yet another way for transferring files from your Mac/PC to
your Apple IIe/IIgs.

Thanks again for the guide Ivan!

/pitz