Re: IIGS System 6 - can someone help?

["Mark Cummings" <figjams@primus.com.au>]

Mike,

I understand your "catch-22" situation, been there done that. a2central.com
has .sdk and .sit and .zip format available to download, but IMHO you should
spend about $12 and buy them, this will save a lot of heartache.
To proove that the files at a2central.com work (and I don't doubt it), I
just downloaded one to my PC as follows:
1. downloaded the System disk .sit file "1 of 7 - Install_sit(1).bin" to my
PC. Looks like they have the install & system disk swapped over on the site,
so I actually downloaded the Install disk.
2. renamed the file as "install.sit" on the PC, to make it 8.3 compatable on
the floppy.
3. copied the file to a 1.4Mb PC floppy.
4. copy it onto the Mac's HDD, BTW it still has a PC icon
5. "Expanded the file using Shrinkit 5.5, which created a file named "Disk 1
of 7 Install" (plain icon)
6. Ran Disk Copy 6.2 and performed "Make a Floppy" from that file, which
requested a double sided disk (800K) be inserted, and made an A2 3.5" disk.
Disk Copy 4.2 should also work.
7. Placed the 800K disk into my GS' 3.5 and booted it, works as advertised.

You should probably download the system disk first as this boots up to the
System 6 desktop, and can be used by itself as a system disk should.

If you can't work that out and don't want to buy they disks, I can possibly
put them in A2-Shrinkit3.4 format or Mac-.img format and e-mail it to you.
Just e-mail me at figjams@primus.com.au .
Note that the last disk "Apple II Setup" is actually a Mac HFS disk.

Mark


Mike K wrote in message ...
>Hello,
>
>I'm in need of system 6 for my IIgs.  My old original disks from 12 years
>ago no longer work.  I just bought a IIgs a few weeks ago and cannot get
>anything to run on it since I don't have a system to run anything on.
>
>I downloaded system 6 from several different web pages but they are in
>either DiskCopy format (which I cannot get my mac to load the image in Disk
>Copy) or they are in .shk format (shrink-it).  In order to unshrink them so
>far I found one program that can do it, but requires the GS system6 system
>to be running in order to use the unshrink-it program.
>
>Could someone help me by sending me the disks via email or some other way,
>by putting the disks in a .sit (stuff-it) format?  I can then download them
>and use my mac to get the files to a prodos disk.
>
>If you can help me please email me first before sending the files since I
>need to use a different email account (one that will hold good size
>attachments).
>
>Thank you in advance,
>Mike K
>
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