Re: A Network From Heck update

["John Van Winkle" <appleiieman@charter.net>]

I think this sounds cool!  I wish I could see it in person
and make it myself.    I have never seen an Apple network run and would like
to build one myself to connect my A2's to.  Thanks for sharing your sucess.



"Bart" <you@somehost.somedomain> wrote in message
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> Well, I  have just finished reconfiguring an aspect of my Network from
heck and
> ran across some points I thought I should share with any would be Apple II
> networker interested in making the process a little more painless and a
little
> more way retro-cool ;)
>
> Specifically, I was setting up a new Apple II server.  I had an older
Powerwave
> Mac Clone on the shelf and though, this would do fine as a server.  The
beast
> currently had a 2gb hard drive with Mac OS 8.1 loaded. Well!  for A2 use
this
> will NEVER do!  so...
>
> I found a external SCSI case and installed a 1gb drive.  I hooked this to
the
> external SCSI port on the Powerwave and slapped the original Power
Computing CD
> in the CD drive.  Three finger salute, hold down the C key and in the
course of
> time;  a diskutility or two and, the 1gb was now a Mac HFS (not HFS+)
format
> MacOS 7.5.3 drive.
>
> Next I downloaded a copy of Appleshare 3.0 (with thanks to all in CSA2 who
> responded to my request for this obscure software).
>
> Configuration of Administrator users, shares, etc then takes place
followed by
> wiring up a 10bT ethernet connection to the proper card AND a phone line
dongle
> for a Localtalk net.  Oh yes,  Localtalk Bridge extension was also
installed
>
> Fire up the beast, and fire up my trusty ROM 3.   Load Network  on the
ROM 3
> then map to the 1Gig  drive and copy over ProDOS  and Basic.System.  While
I
> was at it I dropped a full SYSTEM  folder on the root of 1GIG.  You just
never
> know when you might wish to load up a full GS/OS boot from a network.
Next I
> found a copy of sneeze.bsq,  unBinscii and unShrinked it on the GS and
> transferred it over to the root of the 1Gig.  Why?  well the next piece of
> hardware requires this and I will explain Sneeze in a moment to those
unaware
> of its wonders:
>
> My Apple IIe with Transwarp II, a Liron card, 1mb memory card, RGB-memory
> daughtercard, and this and that...also has a Apple II workstation card in
slot
> 7.  This magic card allows the IIe to boot from a network source and THAT
was
> why the exercise was conducted:  I wanted to boot this IIe from the Net.
And
> now that works like a champ.
>
> Now, what the heck is "Sneeze"?
>
> Sneeze is a file handling utility for ProDOS.  It looks acts and behaves
like
> many of the various flavors of Norton Commander clones developed in the
*nix
> world (See Midnight Commander as the best example).  Sneeze is navigated
using
> the arrow keys, the tab key and enter.  Tab shows you all disks mapped or
> connected to your IIe. When you press it,  the 5.25 and 2.5 drives all
blink
> (or grunt if no disk is inserted).  Sneeze will see Basic formated drives,
but
> not Pascal  by the way..
> By copying the files from  the Sneeze disk to the root (or System  dir;
> wherever you have set the ProDOS boot to in the Apple II setup within
> Appleshare 3.0 or 3.0.3)  of the HFS drive, you have in effect said:  "Run
this
> on boot".  This means the Apple IIe loads Sneeze when it boots and believe
me;
> this app was MADE for  network boot!
>
> Scanning the content of all directories on a  1 gigabyte HFS drive (or
even
> multiple drives if you have selected them at boot) from a wee Apple IIe is
just
> plain cool.  Try it, you too can enjoy the power :)
>
> -Bart
>