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Need help w/Fast Eddie beta



Howdy folks,

Just last year I bought my two little children a used GS super system so 
that they could learn all about computers the easy way. While we are all 
very happy using this system, the lack of a GUI, Navigator compatible 
web browser and postscript page layout program forced me to get an 
additional used PowerMac 6100/66 system.

While real world needs force us now to use this mac as the primary 
system, we were pleasantly surprised to learn at my user group that a GS 
emulator called Fast Eddie has just gone into public beta. If this 
miracle program works as expected, it would permit us to get back into 
using a "GS" in the frequency we used to while allowing us to easily 
switch to Mac apps when absolutely necessary.

Once I learned of FE I immediately cranked up Navigator to download this 
babe. Downloading and installation (along with ROM image available with 
archive) went fine. But once I run FE a bunch of garbage characters 
scroll up the window which apparently represents the GS screen. Anyway, 
I cannot figure out how to actually run ProDOS to install System 6.0.1, 
which I have on floppies. The docs say that FE recognizes floppies 
inserted into the built-in superdrive, but I can't get it to boot up the 
system disk so I can run the installer...

Any help I can get concerning this matter would be much appreciated.