Re: II GS help/easy one

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Bill Robbins (mfumu@alphalink.com.au) wrote:
: In article <3675237f.0@news.pacifier.com>, "Scott H"
: <sheynde@pacifier.com> wrote:

: > Hello,
: >     I am a teacher and had an Apple II GS donated to our class. It will only
: > boot to a purple-bordered screen that says something about system disc or
: > whatever. I went to the official Apple site, found a set of 7 system discs I
: > could download, but none would get me past the dreaded screen described
: > above.
: >     Is there a master boot disc I am not finding, or some other solution?
: > Thanks, Scott

: A bit more detail would be helpful, but here's a try.  The original GS/OS
: 6.0.1 came on six disks, not seven, so I have no idea what the seventh
: disk is.  However the other six:

The seventh disk is an HFS disk called :Apple.II.Setup and I believe it is
used for setting up an Appletalk server on a Macintosh so that the IIgs
can boot from it.  Or something like that.  In any case, it is not needed
for a standalone IIgs system.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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