Re: Networking Mac and //gs

[gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)]

voss@i40s16.ira.uka.de (Stefan Voss) writes:
>rajan@cco.caltech.edu (Rajan Ranga) writes:

>>Hello.  I have an Apple //gs and a Macintosh.  Right now I can network them
>>so I can mount the Mac hard drive on to my //gs.  I would like to also use
>>the Mac's hard drive as a hard drive for the //gs.  In this case, I would
>>like to use the Mac HD to boot my //gs (3.5" disks are becoming a pain 
>>as the system keeps growing!).  Any help would be appreciated.

>The IIGS can only boot from a ProDOS formatted device (HD, floppy).
>Therefore you can use your MAC's HD for normal data storage (via
>AppleShare, I think) but not for booting your GS. 

AppleShare 3.0 and later versions will allow a IIgs running System 6 or
later to be booted off a Mac's HD via an AppleTalk network.  Earlier
versions of AppleShare will not boot GS System 6.  Check your
documentation for AppleShare for more information.  It should be
possible to have your GS be completely diskless.  I have yet to have
success with it (school I was trying to set it up with didn't have
AppleShare 3.0 yet).

AppleShare seems to do all the translation for the GS so that it looks
like a ProDOS volume.  You can even access an AppleShare volume via
ProDOS 8.  You just can't access stuff that don't contain valid ProDOS
filename characters or names longer than 15 chars via ProDOS 8.  GS/OS
can access it all.

It is also possible to boot other Apple IIs over the network (provided
they have AppleTalk cards installed, of course).

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