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Re: Apple IIgs - strange behavior
- Subject: Re: Apple IIgs - strange behavior
- From: applebite <like@them.appls>
- Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:22:52 -0800
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: EasyNews, UseNet made Easy!
- References: <gj4644$hsp$1@Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca>
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On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:06:44 +0000 (UTC), bob@bob.us wrote:
The GS/OS floppy was made on the same comp by its previous owner.
Deluxe Paint II is an original disk.
>how did you make the boot floppy? did you use diskdup+? if you used
>diskcopy and you used a modern mac to do so, it creates an non-bootable
>boot disk because of the differences in the hardware. later macs had
>manual inject drives and older macs had auto inject drives. all 2s had
>auto inject dives. diskdup+ will make the correct disk for the 2, diskcopy
>won't.
>
>> From: applebite <like@them.appls>
>>Trying to boot from a GS/OS 6.0.1 floppy... The welcome message is
>>shown briefly, for less than 1 sec, but after that a grid of pinkish
>>rectangles appear and constant clicking sound comes from the speaker.
>>Then it just stays that way.
>>Is it just a bad floppy or does this indicate a hardware problem?