Re: GS newbie questions

[Ron Slaminko <ronald.slaminko@boeing.com>]

Should have mentioned this earlier.  I *did* get a GS operating system
disk on 3.5" in the box with everything else.  The system boots fine
with that disk, and from there I could format and run verification tests
on the 5.25.  

Someone else clued me in that I could go to the Basic system and type
pr#6 from the ] prompt to force a warm boot from the 5.25.  That seemed
to work, and most of the disks booted up fine that way.  But I still
can't get it to autoboot a //e disk from the 5.25. 

Howe Family wrote:
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> > I did clean the drives, and ran basic functionality tests
> > (read,write,verify,format) all of which worked fine.
> 
> Just wondering how you did this, since you are unable to boot anything?
> 
> When I try to boot
> > from the 5&1/4, the drive light comes on and it makes that sorta
> > grinding noise that I assume is a seek to the 1st track, then nothing.
> > The screen says "check startup device" or something similar.  The disks
> > are a motley collection of things that came with the system - some
> > commercial, some not.  Those that say anything on the label say they are
> > for 128K Apple II series machines or 128K IIc or IIe or something
> > similar.  They are not GS specific programs, but I thought the GS would
> > boot itself as a IIe if that's what it found in the disk drive.
> >
> 
> Yes it should boot //e programs. The disks could be bad, they're all
> well beyond their expected life by now. Can you get a copy of the OS
> from the net and try that? (Need a Mac to achieve this at present.)
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