A Network From Heck update

[you@somehost.somedomain (Bart)]

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