Re: Booting a IIgs via AppleTalk?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

William McBrine (wmcbrine@clark.net) wrote:
: I'm a new IIgs user. (Perverse, ain't I?) I d/l'ed System 6 from Apple,
: and got AppleTalk working with my Mac SE/30 -- that is, I can mount the
: Mac hard disk. But disk 7 of the IIgs System 6 distribution turned out to
: be a Mac disk -- a package to allow Apple II systems to boot from a Mac
: server over LocalTalk. (This could be handy, since I don't have a hard
: disk for the IIgs.)

You only use that disk to set up a Mac running the real live Appleshare
server software to boot Apple IIs over localtalk. Make that version 3 of
Appleshare since version 2 won't run under system 7, and version 4 doesn't
have the boot provision. File sharing built into Mac OS won't do it.

: I installed the software, and it put some files in my System folder (on
: the Mac), but I could find no way to activate it. There were no real
: instructions with the package, just a brief blurb during installation
: telling me to reboot (I did) and set something that wasn't there. Can
: anyone help me out here?

You either need Appleshare 3, which has a hefty price tag as all network
software does for license reasons, or just give up on the idea and buy
a hard disk for the IIgs. That's a whole lot cheaper.

The thing that "wasn't there" was undoubtedly the server preferences option
in the Appleshare Admin app, which is where you tell the server to support
network startups. 
 
How expensive is Appleshare? Well I found a shrinkwrapped copy of 3.0 at 
this store liquidation place for $400, and couldn't believe my good fortune.
That was like in '93 or so if I'm remembering right. I'd expect to pay
a minimum of $200 for any used copy you're lucky enough to locate. 
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