Re: Booting a IIgs via AppleTalk?

[hirsch@air.steve.net (Steven N. Hirsch)]

In article <5t7274$4pb$1@opal.southwind.net>, Randy Shackelford wrote:

>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. 

Now that I have ProDOS-8 and GS/OS support working in netatalk, I'm
starting to investigate adding workstation boot.  There is limited
discussion of this in the A2 Workstation Card API book, but I'd
appreciate any insights or observations before diving into it.

I've sent the patches (against Netatalk 1.4b2) to U-Mich and requested
that they post them on their web site.  If anyone is interested,
please E-Mail me and I'll send you a copy.

Steve