Re: How should I re-install the HD?

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nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:
>In article <5e18jp$nvk@nntp.hut.fi>, Paul Dunkel <pdunkel@cc.hut.fi> wrote:
>>I have this GS with SCSI-HD, some extra-ram, transwarp, etc. The damn GS
>>won't boot the OS from the HD, neither does it from the 3.5" disks (the
>>disks _are_ ok).
>
>   If the GS/OS system disks are ok, but they won't boot, then it's
>probably a hardware fault somewhere in the system. Does it boot when
>you remove everything but the RAM, monitor and keyboard? If so, then
>something you removed is at fault. Also, check for RAM faults-- the
>internal system test does not check anything on the expansion RAM
>card.

I think so.  Paul's original post said that the text control
panel reads his 5.5MB GS as having 400K.  This screams of a fault in
the expansion RAM (if he has a ROM 1).  So I agree that it might be
a hardware problem.


>
>>What should I do? How should I format the whole HD?
>>What is the proper copy-program for GS that I can start from ProDos?
>
>   You got into this mess earlier when you tried to copy files around
>in the system folder. I've tried to tell you this before-- if you
>don't know what you're doing, then *DON'T* mess with your system
>folder.  Use the nice installer Apple shipped with 6.0.1-- and if
>GS/OS won't run off your 3.5" drive, how do you expect it to magically
>run off your HD?
>
>   You do have a problem, and you're going at it the wrong way. Copying
>files around isn't going to fix what's looking like a hardware fault.
>
>Nathan Mates


However, I do think that at some level, it is worth learning the file
organization of the System folder.  That's the only way to become
a "power user" of the GS.  If my five year old mucks around with the
computer and all of the sudden, the GS boots up saying "Finder needs
default icon file" or something, I want to know what it means.  I also
would like to know what I can or can't delete (for example, TS1 or TS2
depending on ROM 1 or ROM 3) to make more room on the boot volume.
If he had known that P8 programs don't like resource forks, he would
probably not have copied with them.

I think the FAQ would be a good place to put a "map" of the layout of
the System folder (with strong warnings to not proceed until the
reader fully absorbs it).

Info that the 6.0.1 is available from ftp apple in a form that can
be unpacked on a Mac may also be helpful to many and avoid the "no
binscii to unpack" catch-22 situation.  (At least the older) Mac
drives can make the bootable GS 6.0.1 disks from those other archives.

-Scott G.