Re: Help me solve my Bernie problem

["F.E.Systems Tech Support" <sorry@not.available>]

Dear Michael,

>I can't create a startup disk for Bernie, even after following the
>insturctions on the web page. I make the disk image, I go through the
>install with all 7 disk images I downloaded from Apple, I get the message
>"Install script completed successfully," I dis-mount all disks exept the
>new startup disk, I reset: "Check Startup Device!" is what I get next,
>every time. Yes, I did assign the drive as a startup drive.

Be sure to disable Low-Level Disk Support from the Setup menu.  If it has a
check mark, choose it once and then reboot the emulated IIGS by selecting
"Reset" from the "Setup menu.
Because Bernie does not save preferences to disk, you need to disable
Low-Level Disk Support every time you start Bernie. Sorry..:-)
(This will change with the final release.)

The Startup Disk...lets you specify disk images you would like to have
mounted each time Bernie is starting up. This feature is only functional in
registered copies.

>My second problem is even more annoying, even if I do get the first one
>solved; My copies of Bard's Tale GS and Karateka are both loose files, not
>on a disk image. I have tried creating a ProDos disk image and copying
>them onto it, but Bernie refuses to mount it.

I'm confident Bernie did mount the disk properly. When you open the "Disks"
window (see Windows menu), you will see one unit labeled "built-in
SuperDrive". This is where the floppy went to. Below the disks' title, it
also sdays to which slot/drive combination the disk has been mapped to.
That's where the disk can be found. It is not necessarily slot 5, drive 1.

To change the mapping, click the drive once (to highlight it) and then use
the arrow buttons in the window's button bar to move the drive around.

>I've tried creating a disk
>image from within Bernie, but then I can't mount that in the Mac Finder.

You can mount Disk Copy images created with Bernie with Apple's Disk Copy.
(If you're having difficulties with Bernie's disk copy images: turn off
checksum verification in Disk Copy.) Hard drive images might work as well,
but I'm not sure actually.

>I've tried Bernie 2.0's ability to mount a Mac HFS volume, but that
>doesn't seem to work either--I just get I/O ERROR. 

This is most likely one of those zillion bugs in the HFS FST and not under
Bernie's control.

>Anyway, someone with experience with Bernie has to help me dig myself out
>of this hole. Thanks in advance for any help you might offer.

I hope this information was of some help. Feel free to contact our tech
support if problems develop.

regards,
henrik


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