Re: Network Booting of IIGS

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

Right, I found out about the Network Control Panel - the thing is, it's set to
GS/OS.  Typing "BYE in Basic" returns me to the menu where I have a choice of "Log
Off File Server" "Return to startup application" and "Quit".   I tried "Return to
startup application", and I got back to BASIC again (Yay infinite loops!).   So, I
then lunached the finder manually like this:

]- /QVACK/SYSTEM/FINDER     <where QVACK is the Mac HD>

and I get the Finder.  I then launched the Control panel and checked the Network
setting, and :  <drum roll, please> "GS/OS" was checked.  Go figure.

The only thin with a .SYS16 extension is "SETSTART.SYS16" - I'll try nuking that and
see what happens.  I worse comes to worse, I'll do a reinstall

-Jon

Randy Shackelford wrote:

> 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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