Re: trying to get an Apple II GS going for fun...

[Jack Countryman <jcountry@seidata.com>]

You say you formatted the floppy to 800K....  Note that the default disk
format on macs is as a mac (HFS) disk.  The IIGS will not read a HFS
disk as a boot volume, as far as I know.  Try again, and see if you can
format the disk as ProDos...not HFS.  If that option is not available,
then you need a newer/better equipped mac (with PCExchange for example)
or a IIGS to format the disks.
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Astro wrote:
> 
> So this is what I did. I downloaded off the Apple web site the system
> disk file for System 6.0.1 [since I can't find system 5.0.4 posted
> ANYWHERE... weird... not even on the Apple web site], I downloaded
> this file to my PC and copied it to a 1.44 meg floppy. I then prepared
> a separate floppy with the stickers over the hole as described above.
> I took both these floppys to a Mac I know. I mounted the 1.44 meg
> floppy and copied the system file to the Mac desktop. Then I mounted
> the sticker-prepared floppy and formatted it to 800k. That worked
> fine.