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

[JJeffries@psu.edu (Jason Jeffries)]

In article <3i0a24$sda@nntp1.u.washington.edu>
frostj@u.washington.edu (Joseph Frost) writes:

> 
> I have a IIGS with no hard drive that I boot from a 3 1/2" diskette.  
> I would like to be able to add it to the localtalk net that I have
> set up for Macintosh's, one of which has the IIe card in it.
> 
> 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.  

Although you can't _boot_ from it without the mega-expensive AppleShare
software, if you can tolerate booting from a 3.5" disk, you can
_probably_ fit a minimal System 6.0.1 setup on a floppy, have the GS
boot from that, and then use System 6's AppleTalk software to access
the Mac. Alternately, you could get a teeny HD for the GS for fast
booting, and use whatever portion of the Mac drive you want for //
stuff. Either way, you'll have to set up personal filesharing on the
Mac for this, but that's easy. 

Jason Jeffries - JJeffries@psu.edu
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