Re: GS Shrinkit - Newbie question

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Chuck Nelson writes ...
> 
> I am just back in the GSWorld after a very long absence. I'm struggling with
> GSShrinkit and I hope someone can help me.
> 
> I have used ZLink to transfer some .shk files over to the GS. If I use the
> IIe version of Shrint-it, I can get them to extract fine. You just have to
> swap disks 100 times or so. I just downloaded a disk that has 6.01 and
> GS-Shrinkit on it called "GSUTILS" that I created with the IIe version of
> Shrinkit. I also have a disk called "Data" that has a .sdk on it.
> 
> Here's what I do:
> 
> 1) I boot up the GSUtils disk.
> 2) Pop that disk out
> 3) Put in the disk called "Data"
> 4) Pull down File menu, select Open, then double click on the file name of
> the disk image file.
> 5) A dialog box comes up and asks me to select device for extraction. The
> name is ".APPLEDISK3.5A"
> 6) I click "Eject" to get the "Data" disk out and put in the disk I want the
> image on.
> 7) It asks me if I want to format and I select "Yes".
> 8) Disk gets formated. After that, it prompts me to put "Data" back in.
> 9) I then put "Data" in and it starts to read in the image. To this point I
> am good.
> 10) GSHK comes back and asks me to load the "GSUTILS" disk and then proceeds
> to overwrite it. It never asks for the disk I just created.
> 
> Sometimes it will come back and ask for "Data", sometimes for "GSUTILS",
> never the disk I want it to go to. It took a few times to figure this out. I
> am sure it is something I am doing wrong. I have tried blank disk, formatted
> disks, disks with data, everything and I just can't get it to write to the
> correct disk. At this point I would almost rather use the IIe version as it
> at least won't overwrite stuff.
> 
> Please enlighten a poor guy who just wants to play "Defender of the Crown".
> Thanks for the help!

     Not sure. Specifying a Drive device target instead of a Volume Name target
may be confusing things. GS-ShrinkIt seems to be assuming (incorrectly) that it
is ready to start writing to the target because the target is taken to be
whatever is in 3.5" Drive 1 at the time it checks prior to writing..

     You might try write-protecting the GSUTILS (or DATA) disk before inserting
when asked prior to writing. Maybe you will get a message telling you the
target is write-protected and have a chance to swap in your target disk and the
stuff will be written.

     An alternative try is using a formatted and named target disk. (You tell
GS-ShrinkIt the target's name instead of just specifying the drive.)


     More generally, trying to run GS System with GS utils (especially a util
like GS-ShrinkIt) with only one 800k drive is pretty much a chore. 

     Getting 4MB of RAM would allow lots more flexibility-- like you could set
up an 800k RAM Disk. Or you could use FlashBoot to preload System 6.0.1 onto a
larger RAM disk and run from there-- it's a lot like having a hard disk.



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