Re: how to make a boot disk

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <19980101232800.SAA04435@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
MarcusDave <marcusdave@aol.com> wrote:
>(Since I know nothing about Apple II, a friend asked me to find some info on
>it, so that's why I'm in this newsgroup.)
>Is the ProDOS formatting capability of 800K disks on the PowerPC Apple II
>compatible?

   Theoretically, yes, though you still need to add in the required
system files to actually make such a disk bootable. [And, you have to
get the filetypes right if you use the Mac Finder-- ain't "standards"
like filetypes great, especially when so meaningless?] Then, there's
the problem that so many powermacs have-- substandard 3.5" drives may
claim they wrote a disk correctly, but they sure ain't bootable. Many
have found that older Macs from when Apple wasn't stupidly
pennypinching work better.

Nathan Mates

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