Re: IIgs to Network via Linux

[Ron <ron@pacifier.com>]

I just got RedHat for my computer it is sure a lot beter that win 98.
I been trying to figer out to hook them up no time.
I did nto know the it would open mac drives I know it will open all cd
roms.
Ron

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
> phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net> wrote:

>>Supertimer wrote:
>>
>>> Warren Anthony Stramiello <gte704i@acmey.gatech.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> >I'm trying to set up my IIgs to connect to my Linux box, and from there
>>> >into the network... How would I go about doing this? I'm thinking I need
>>> >to set up the linux box to accept logins via the serial and lpt ports...
>>> >but what do I need to do from the IIgs side?
>>>
>>> A terminal program supporting VT100.  http://www.intrec.com/
>>> has ProTERM 3.1, which is great for this.  It also supports zmodem
>>> for file transfers.
>>>
>>> Or you can set up GNO/ME for the IIGS and zmodem via its
>>> shell command line using the familiar sz command.
>>>
>>> If you want something more, there is Netatalk for Linux.  I'm not
>>> sure where to get it, but it lets you set up Linux as an LocalTalk
>>> server.  The IIGS can then log on using Finder and navigate files
>>> and folders as if on its own hard drive.
>>
>>This is a bit esoteric, but the newer Linux kernels also support the
>>HFS format and MAC partitions. I've used this to read MAC cd's.

> 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.