Re: Network Booting of IIGS

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Jonathan Reed <jdreed-NOSPAM@mit.edu> wrote:
: 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?

That's usually due to having the network control panel set that way. Unlike
the Mac's network control panel (classic networking; it's Appletalk with OT)
which switches your Appletalk connection, the IIgs' switches whether a IIgs
goes into ProDOS 8 or ProDOS 16 (GS/OS) when booting from a server. If it gets
set to ProDOS 8, you have to get to where you can access NDAs to get to the 
control panel to change it. Just do BYE in BASIC and it should go back to the
Launcher or something.

That's my first guess at why you end up in ProDOS 8. Others could be that
you have a .SYS16 that goes there rather than to the Finder, but that's
unlikely with a fresh install.
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