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

[Tempest <reichert2084@gmail.com>]

On Monday, February 11, 2013 11:32:50 AM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
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> >>> I don't think ADTPro would work because it can only transfer images to a disk drive or the RAM disk.  Unless there's another option I'm missing.
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> >> Sure it will.  You'd want the block sizes to be pretty close (and ignore
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> >> the "size mismatch" warning if they aren't exact).  Also be sure there's
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> >> nothing on the partition you're about to overwrite... but it'll lay down
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> >> a whole 32MB drive's worth of a disk image if you want.
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> > ADTPro will see my hard drive? I don't think I've ever seen it show up as a disk in the menu.
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> Sure it will.  Boot GSOS like usual, except hit the '8' key right after 
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> reset or power-on to just boot into ProDOS 8.  That should have enough 
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> underpinnings to see your hard drive.  You can then start ADTPro from a 
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> floppy or from the hard drive itself, wherever you put it.

Interesting, I don't think I've ever tried that before.  Of course even if this works my problem is that my partitions are only 30 Megs and the hard drive images are 32 Megs. Something tells me that won't work out very well.  I've never tried to repartition a hard drive on a IIgs before (mine came that way).  How hard is that to do?