Re: GS OS 6.0.1 Install problems

[PB14@le.ac.uk (Phil Beesley)]

> In article <19970809174801.NAA27002@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
> AKocur <akocur@aol.com> wrote:
> >I've had a number of  Apple //e's and //c's, but now I've gotten my first
> >GS. Its a Woz ROM 01, and I got it with a monitor for $20. The pawn shop I
> >got it from didn't have any disk drives with it. I just got 2 3.5" drives,
> >and went to apples web site and got all 7 disks of 6.0.1.  I downloaded
> >the sucessfully and formatted 7 disks on my Powermac 6100 in 800k ProDos
> >format. Then I used Shrinkwrap to make disks out of the disk images. I
> >used high density disks but taped over the hole so that my mac would
> >recognize them as 800k disks. After making the disks, the mac recognized
> >them properly and I could open and look at the files on the disks. I went
> >to put the first disk in the GS, the install disk and when it boots it
> >says unable to load prodos. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to get 800k
> >disks instead of the HD ones? I read on a web site that some macs don't
> >properly make 800k prodos disks. It that the problem? Anyone who has any
> >experience doing this I would greatly appreciate some insite here. 

I went throught the same experience recently. I downloaded onto images
onto PowerMac and transferred to 800K ProDos format using th older version
of Diskcopy. These gave the "unable to load ProDos" error that you report.
I skirted round the problem by dumping the images onto an SE/30 and
re-creating the ProDos disks there. The second set installed perfectly.

The PowerMac 6100 does use the latest 3.5" disk drive (note that this is
approx 2/3 the height of the older Sony drives) which might be a cause of
problems as suggested by Randy Shackleford. I'm also a little suspicious
of PC Exchange. Newer versions of this (as supplied with System 7.5
onwards) allow you to mount and format ProDos 3.5" disks as well as PC
disks.

Phil