Re: IIgs to Network via Linux

[phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net>]

Supertimer wrote:

>
> That's great.  I have mostly HFS partitions on my 1GB IIGS hard
> drive, so this means that if I install Linux on my Windows 95 unit
> (guess I'd have to play around with PartitionMagic), I could simply
> hook up my IIGS drive to my PC's SCSI chain and access my
> data.  Accessing my IIGS HFS Zip disks on the PC would also
> be nice.
>
> Right now I use my Zip drive and MS-DOS formatted Zip disks to
> do the transfer.  The MUG! desk accessory for the IIGS allows
> it to write to the MS-DOS file system.
>
> I still use my IIGS for word processing tasks (1 to 10 pages).  For
> such tasks, booting the IIGS to GS/OS and launching the GUI
> based AppleWorks GS v1.1 is faster than booting Windows 95
> and besides, using the same TrueType fonts and printing to the
> same ink-jet printer means the result is identical.  However, this
> means I have to transfer documents (in postscript or rtf format)
> once in a while between the PC and the IIGS.

Actually it comes with a utility to help with this. You will need to
defrag the windows hard disk. I did this with my first install. When
I got 6.0 though I did a clean install on my system after backing up
some stuff I wanted to keep. If you do it this way you must set up
your Dos partition and leave the rest of the disk blank and set those
partitions in the Linux install (Redhat is the only one I know). Install
Win 95 first 'cause Linux works best if it is launched from the LILO
boot launcher. This is how I set up my system for both OS'S.

I don't know how well it works with 95r2. My 95 is the original version
with 16 bit FAT drives. There are a couple of versions out there which
install on a DOS partition but I haven't had much luck with them and
I'm a little leary of trashing my DOS drive.

Linux will also access the Zip drive if configured properly.

Phoenyx