Re: more gs questions

[doug holverson <dholvrsn@netins.net>]

> From: "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>
> Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:27:41 GMT
> Subject: Re: more gs questions
> 
> "doug holverson" <dholvrsn@netins.net> wrote in message
> B770F8A3.6D171%dholvrsn@netins.net">news:B770F8A3.6D171%dholvrsn@netins.net...
>> 
>> 
>>> From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
>>> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
>>> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
>>> Date: 10 Jul 2001 22:49:06 GMT
>>> Subject: Re: more gs questions
>>> 
>>> doug holverson wrote, in reply to william strutts(>>):
>>> 
>>>>> That must be a Appleworks boot disk.  When you exit to
>>>>> Prodos, you can tell it what app to load after that.  Select
>>>>> Basic.system as the application to load.
>>>> 
>>>> I get this far and I get a "PATH/FILENAME NOT FOUND" error.
>>> 
>>> That's because BASIC.SYSTEM is not on this disk.  In fact
>>> it would be VERY unusual for it to be on an Appleworks boot disk.
>>> 
>>> You need to get some more bootable disks.  ;-)
>>> 
>> Okay, so where do I start making bootable disks?
>> 
> 
> 
> Is that the ONLY boot disk that you have? Where exactly
> are  you? 

Okay, I have no Apple II experience before yesterday when I inherited this
pile of old Apple II stuff with zero documentation. All the floppies were
thrown into a plastic bag and most of those were grade school edutainment
titles (c.f.: "Fraction Funland"). The one GS that I have running has 5" and
3.5" floppy drives daisy chained. I have Bernie II and some downloaded
system 6.0.1 stuff on my G3 Mac which I can't do anything with because the
system files all locked in .sdk format which Mac won't decompress without
Bernie's emulation and Bernie won't emulate until I decompress those system
files (grrrr!).

DGH

> If you want, I could make you a boot disk with
> some tools on it like Shrinkit and Asimov and a telecom
> program.  However, if you have other bootable disk,
> we could step you through creating one.
> 
> The disk you got from Apple are extractable only on the
> Mac.  You could try to make an 800k floppy from the
> Mac and unextract the files  you got onto them.  I don't
> know if that would work.
> 
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> 
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> 
> Just hacking away...
> 
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