Re: //e Card Slot & HD quagmire

[cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)]

In article <Pine.OSF.3.92.970203112734.18986A-100000@jasper.uor.edu>, 
schroede@uor.edu says...

>I have an Apple //e with a Duodisk (5.25"), a SCSI Hard Drive (with card)
>and a card for a 3.5" floppy (I haven't gotten the 3.5" floppy drive yet).
>I'm trying to set the computer up so I can boot off of the Hard Drive, or
>the 5.25" floppy. What would be the best order to install the cards in
>their slots? Right now I have the Hard Disk in slot #7, the Duodisk in
>slot #6, the 3.5" floppy card in slot #5, a mouse in slot #4, and a
>parallel printer card in (I believe) slot #1. I will mostly just use the
>computer for storage of files on the Hard Disk so I don't really mind
>booting off of the 5.25" floppy if necessary, but I would prefer just
>having the Hard Disk boot up for the sake of convenience. The way I have
>it hooked up, after I formatted the Hard Drive, the computer will not get
>past the Hard Drive when booting, unless the Hard Drive is turned off (I
>also haven't figured out how to load ProDos on the HD). What are some of
>my options? The Floppys that came from Apple (with the SCSI controller
>card) have a utility to format and partition, but nothing to make the Hard
>Disk bootable. I read the FAQ about that "ProBoot" program, but I can only
>download internet files on my Mac (and I don't have a 3.5" floppy yet to
>transfer software to my 5.25" floppies). Any suggestions?

Well if you make the hard drive bootable you'll definitely want it installed 
in the order you specified, as the //e starts at the highest slot looking for 
a boot device and then hunts downward.

Your problem (as near as I can see) is getting ProDos properly installed on 
that guy, but I'm not at all a ProDos guru (DOS 3.3 forever!), so I can't 
offer much in the way of advice there.  I can't imagine it's that tricky 
though. . . 
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