Installing System 6

[tony@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Tony Turner)]

--> Maybe someone can help me figure out what's happening here...
 
    I've just switched to an Apple IIgs (Rom 01) with 1.25 meg
    which came with a Vulcan 40 meg hard drive & GS/OS 5.0.4 on
    it. I just received System 6 (including manual) & I've been
    going crazy trying to install it onto the hard drive!
 
    The manual says to change the boot slot (which I did) to be
    slot 5. It then states to re-boot the system (& I've tried
    warm & cold boots) with the Install disk. Which I did...
 
    I get to the Easy Install screen & it knows that the normal
    boot disk is the first partition on the Vulcan hard drive,
    called: AE1. I click on the "Easy Update" & away it goes;
    telling me it's checking available space; then it asks for
    the Systemtools1 disk (I only have 1 3.5" drive); then the
    Systemtools2 disk; THEN it asks me to insert the AE1 disk;
    which is where I've been going nuts - as this is where it
    goes wanky, insisting that I insert a disk called: AE1;
    when it should have been going back to the first partition
    on the hard drive called: AE1 & doing it's thing - but it
    just sits there, demanding I give it what it wants. If I
    remove the diskette from the 3.5" drive (& if there's no
    diskette in the 5.25" drive, either) then it tells me that
    there's NO disks online!! Now it's pretty obvious to me
    that at some point near there, it forgets that the hard
    drive exists. The problem I have is finding out WHY it's
    doing that & how to FIX it! There is no problem resetting
    the boot slot to 7 & rebooting takes me to GS/OS 5.0.4 on
    the hard drive, no prob. But each time I try to install
    System 6 - the same thing happens. I've tried such wierd
    & wonderful things such as naming a 3.5" disk as AE1 & it
    comes back & tells me: duplicate disk online, until I take
    it out - then nothing; I've tried copying the files onto
    the hard drive, renaming the directory & running them from
    there; I've tried booting with the other files in place in
    the System directory; I've tried everything I can think of
    & there's plenty of space on the hard drive so I'm really
    stuck at this point! Ideas, anyone? Would be appreciated...
    =B=Y=E=  -Tony.


Tony Turner              tony@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca