Re: Can you boot a IIGS from a Mac w/ IIe card?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Joseph Frost (frostj@u.washington.edu) wrote:

: I would especially like to use part of one of the Mac's internal hard-disks
: as storage for the IIGS just like the IIe card does.  Continuing my wish list,
:  I would like to actually boot from the hard disk.  

You can use the space on the Macs' hard disks on the network, but you have to
have Appleshare 3.0, a $1000 software package, to boot from a server. You can
buy two gigs of hard disk with that much these days.

: How much of this is possible?  If I do boot from the Mac, will I be
: limited to the ProDos 8 that is installed in my IIe board?

Booting is done using software installed on the server from the Apple II setup
disk, which is at version 3.0 for IIgs system 6.0.1. The card has nothing to
do with it.

: Or is all of this foolish and I should just break down and buy a card
: and hard drive for the IIGS?

I'd get a hard disk. Unless of course, you totally luck out and one of the
Macs on the network is already running Appleshare 3.0. Then just ftp the
setup disk and install it, and connect the IIgs to the network.
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Randy Shackelford                                 thank you, drive through
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