Re: system 7 mac as a gs file server

[epatter@willamette.edu (Eric Patterson)]

In article <1992Nov5.211844.3440@gallant.apple.com> unknown@apple.com (Matt
Ackeret) writes: 

>Well, yeah, you can use Personal Filesharing in System 7 on the Mac to share
>volumes/folders with your GS, but it would be very advantageous to ALSO have
>a hard drive on your GS.  Booting the system is just soooo much faster on a
>hard drive (esp w/RamFAST card) than off of floppies. 

Actually, don't you need AppleShare 3.x to actually BOOT the GS over the
network?  Personal File Sharing with System 7.1, I think, doesn't allow GS
Booting--there's nowhere to store the code.

But I do agree- a hard drive with the GS is necessary.  With a 3.5" 800K boot
disk for the GS to access the Mac's hard disk, there's no room for the Finder,
so everything on the GS is run through the System 6 Launcher-no place to do
file manipulation except from the Mac desktop.

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