Re: I need system disks for IIe and IIgs

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Daniel G. Delaney (dgdela01@homer.louisville.edu) wrote:
:    I just got an enhanced IIe with 128K RAM and a IIgs ROM 1 with a 1 Mb
: expansion card and several floppy drives. Apple has ProDOS at their FTP
: site, which I can download to my Mac. And I can format an 800k 3.5" floppy
: as a ProDOS disk with System 7.5. Now, how do I get the operating system
: onto the ProDOS disk FROM MY MAC, so that I can then use it to boot up my
: IIe and IIgs?

The easiest way is to buy, beg, borrow, or...well don't do that... an 800k
3.5" disk drive for the IIgs.  From the Apple FTP site, you can get system
software as DiskCopy archives.  You use the Macincrash to turn these
archives into 800k ProDOS disks, using DiskCopy which seems to be part of
System 7.5.  Okay? 

Good.  Then you use that system disk to boot the IIgs.  Once the GS is
booted, you can access the 5.25" drive, format a 5.25" floppy, and use it
to boot the ][e.  You'll need to format the disk, then copy PRODOS and
BASIC.SYSTEM onto the 5.25" disk to make it bootable.

And of course, once you've got bootable 5.25" disks, you can give back
that 3.5" drive you borrowed to get the IIgs up and running.  But if you
want to run real IIgs stuff, you'll want that 3.5" drive...so maybe you'd
better obtain one of your own instead.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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