Re: Disk images-- ShrinkIt .sdk on dsk's

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 07 Aug 1999 08:31:42 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>If you are serious about emulating a IIGS, it is best not
>to mess with tiny dsk images.  Jeff Blakeney posted a
>good way to transfer IIGS info.

The real benefit here is that I got my emulated IIgs running the exact
same GS/OS set up with all the extras installed without having to do
it all from scratch.  I won't be setting up an exact copy of my IIgs
setup in my emulators because I don't really have the hard drive space
for 1.2 GB of disk images.  :)

I'll probably just transfer over four or five of my nine ProDOS
partitions.

>Use ShrinkIt GS to compress an ENTIRE hard disk
>drive partition, then transfer it across to the PC (he used
>null modem 56k to transfer 11MB of compressed
>volume across).  On the PC, use Nulib to extract the
>hard disk partition as an image file, which boots in XGS
>or Sweet16.  Of course a Zip drive would even be better.

Keep in mind that when you create a disk image of a 32 MB ProDOS
volume, the disk image has to be saved to an HFS volume.  ProDOS has a
16 MB maximum file size limit.  When you use GSHK to compress it, you
might be able to get away with saving the archive to a ProDOS volume.
In my case it would have worked because my ProDOS volumes weren't near
being full so they compressed down to the 6-11 MB range.

>Works with ProDOS volumes.  Not sure about HFS
>ones.  Well, Sweet16 is said to support them.  I wonder
>how XGS will react.  ;-)

Good question I should try that out one of these days.  :)

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