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Re: ROM 01 GS diskless boot to Appleshare. YES IT WORKS!!!



In <RumorMill--11820114308105300@mail2.chatter.com> Steve Q wrote:
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> "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote in message
> 3d65c2a2@news.svn.net">news:3d65c2a2@news.svn.net...
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>> Well... I tried both 2.0 and 3.0.    The ROM 03's would do a diskless 
>> boot from the server, and the ROM 01's wouldn't.
> 
> Your experience and mine are identical.
> 
>> I found several articles on the web saying the same thing.
> 
> Got any URLs?

I've networked my IIgs to my old PowerBook 5300 before for file 
transfers, but I don't have AppleShare and have never had any reason for 
network booting. As far as I know there is no reason a ROM 1 IIgs can't 
boot from a Mac, however I found this at Apple's Knowledge Archive.

I would guess that at some point something broke on the Mac side, and 
Apple sure as hell wasn't going to worry about fixing it!

from http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=15818

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Apple IIGS: Booting From an AppleShare Server (7/94)

Article ID:15818
Created:7/14/94
Modified:7/14/94

TOPIC

      I have an Apple IIGS, and it does not boot properly from an 
AppleShare server. How can I boot the Apple IIGS from the server?

DISCUSSION

      This problem only happens with Apple IIGS computers that have ROM 
01. There are two solutions:

      1) Upgrade to ROM 03. It doesn't have a problem booting from an 
AppleShare
      server.

      2) Create an AppleShare boot disk and start the Apple IIGS from 
that disk.

      This allows you to use the Auto Logon feature to set the boot disk 
to automatically log into the server and launch a program at startup.
>

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

Apple II - FutureCop:LAPD - iMac Game Wizard
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/
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