Re: IIgs appletalk startup

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

<touchstone> wrote:

> hi,  i am tying to get a IIgs to netboot from a g3 mac and have hit 
> kind of a snag.
> 
> first off, i have a vanilla rom3 gs w/ 2 meg ram.  i have os9.1 on the
> mac and gs/os on 3.5 floppies.  the g3's appletalk connection is set to
> printer port,  and the gs's slot 1 and slot 7 are set to appletalk.  they
> are connected together as such.

[snip]

In order to boot a diskless IIgs over the network from a Mac server, you
need a Mac running the AppleShare server software with the Apple II boot
support installed.

The last version of AppleShare which supported this was AppleShare 3.0,
which requires Mac System 7.0. I doubt it will run on a PowerPC Mac at
all, or with a system as recent as Mac OS 9.1.

It was also possible with AppleShare 2.1, which runs on Mac System 6 and
takes over the entire operation of the Mac.

I've never run this myself and can't point you in the direction of the
server software.

Be warned: it is horribly slow. It is actually faster booting the IIgs
from a 3.5" floppy, but booting from the server has the advantage of a
much larger system volume so you can fit more toolsets, applications,
etc.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz