Re: Network Booting of IIGS

[Jonathan Reed <jdreed-NOSPAM@mit.edu>]

OK, so I got the IIGS booting finally thanks to yours and Randy Shackelford's
advice (Yay, newsgroups!) - after I log onto the fileserver, it displays the
usual "Welcome to the IIGS" dialog box with a progress bar.  The bar gets
about halfway through, and some INIT icons appear at the bottom left of the
screen (a boot, appleshare, sound, etc).  Then I get a "dialog box" drawn in
80 column text that says "One Moment Please", and then it launches ProDOS 8
and ProDOS basic 1.5  As much fun as BASIC is, I'd like to be able to boot the
Finder.  How do I do that?

Thanks,

Jonathan Reed
jdreed@mit.edu

David Empson wrote:

>
> You have to boot a IIgs locally with a network-enabled boot disk (create
> a 3.5" boot floppy using the "Network: Local Startup" option under
> Customize in the Installer).
>
> Log onto the server as a registered user with full access, and run the
> Installer locally.  Go into Customize, and installed "Network: Server
> Startup" onto the server.
>
> It is probably easier if you have two 3.5" drives, since you can't boot
> from the Install disk to do this.
>
> This should be sufficient to allow subsequent network booting of the
> IIgs.
> --
> David Empson
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz
> Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand