Re: guide to setting up netatalk on Ubuntu, with Apple II netboot

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

Ivan,

You da man!!!!

Really, thanks for your great effort in producing Ivan's 'Netatalk-Apple II
Cookbook.' Your step-by-step instructions are just the thing many of us need
in order to implement Netatalk as an Apple II file server.

And, I'm so glad that Steven is still around to provide insight into the
important work he did on this several years ago.

As sweet as your Cookbook is, your mentioning that you intend to try to
build a functional Netatalk-Apple II file server on a NAS ( Western Digital
My Book World Edition) is better still. For those of us with Macs and Apple
IIs but without a dedicated Linux box, that would be a nice file sharing
solution indeed. 

BTW, since you've got a Mac running a pre-10.6 OS (i.e.-AppleTalk still
present in the kernel, but not available for use by the Mac's native
AppleFileServer / AFP over TCP/IP only) maybe you could try something at
which I failed: 

I cheated and used MacPorts to build and install Netatalk, but since that
patched/configured source refused to allow compiling 'atalkd', I was dead in
the water as far as serving files to an Apple II. I never took it further
than that, unfortunately.

So, can you envision building Netatalk on your pre-10.6 OS X Mac so that it
would permit AFP over Appletalk? Obviously, if somehow that were doable, it
would eliminate the need to run Ubuntu under VMWare Fusion on a pre-10.6 OS
X Mac in order to serve files to an Apple II.

Thanks for mulling that one over, in addition to all the other stuff, of
course. <grin>


Hugh Hood



in article C8B33BC6.20246%ivanxqz@yahoo.com, Ivan X at ivanxqz@yahoo.com
wrote on 9/13/10 1:24 AM:

> Here's the cheat sheet for setting up a netatalk 2.1.3 server, with Apple II
> netboot, on Ubuntu 10.04.