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

[wizard@direct.ca (Astro)]

Hey it's me again. You can now know me as Astro.

Although I am mail ordering System 5.0.4 on 3.5' floppies to use with
my setup, I proceeded with a little experiment. I wanted to see if the
"PC-Mac-AppleIIGS" file transfer method would work. 

Oh first, re: 3.5" 800k floppies. People keep telling me I don't
actually need to search blank ones out, because you can simply put
little stickers over the little hole on the upper left of a 3.5" 1.44
meg floppy which will cause a Mac to interpret the floppy as an 800k
floppy.

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. Then I copied the system file off the Mac desktop to the
prepared 800k floppy. I brought this "system disk" to my Apple IIGS
and put it in the drive and powered up the Apple. Well, nothing
happened... Actually, the only thing that happened was that the drive
didn't automatically spit out the disk like it did when I had a 1.44
meg floppy in there at one point. I guess because it didn't spit out
the disk, it accepted the formatting.

It didn't boot into an OS tho. Could be for a number of reasons.
System 6.0.1 will not boot into my ROM 01 rudimentary Apple II GS? The
system file was not properly copied onto the prepared floppy? The
system file was tainted by a "PC" identifier? I downloaded the wrong
file from Apple [Mac Binary and not Binhex]? My disk drive is screwed?


What's the difference between Mac Binary and Binhex? Are these "disk
images"? What's a "disk image" exactly? How do you put files like
system files and other files properly onto a disk?

I'm pretty inquisitive, huh???
Everywhere you look... it's all science...
Astro aka Lord Wizard
R. Priestley
Vancouver, BC
http://persweb.direct.ca/wizard/arcana/default.htm