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Re: Installing Games on the IIgs Hard Drive, What am I Doing Wrong??

On Sunday, February 17, 2013 11:21:05 AM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
> On 2/17/2013 10:26 AM, Tempest wrote:
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> > Ok, it looks like the answer is: Seven partitions is one too many.  Once I reduced the number to six everything worked.  Very strange, but I'll take it.
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> > Now about my other question: Why does ADTPro only see my first two partitions and is there any way to fix that?
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> ADTPro will only "see" what 1) ProDOS reveals to it, and 2) a partition 
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> that has media in it (formatted for hard drives, unformatted or 
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> formatted for floppy drives).
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> You may not be seeing all of your partitions if you are booting from the 
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> ADTPro distribution disk because it contains ProDOS v1.9, the one that 
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> is/was freely available for download from Apple.  In that environment, 
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> some disks may not be visible to it.
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> You may not be seeing all of your partitions if you are booting with '8' 
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> from GSOS if the hard drive partition hasn't been formatted yet.  I'm 
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> not sure if there is a chicken+egg situation there or not; but GSOS 
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> should be able to detect and prepare the hard drive partitions the first 
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> time for you even if ADTPro can't.

Are there any issues using ADTPro from GS/OS?  I thought that was a no-no.