Re: AppleShare startup for GS?

[gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)]

lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu (LA County Outdoor Science School) wrote:

>As you already said, you can put the finder on the Mac HD and use the 
>SetStart CDev to run it automatically after a local boot off of a 3.5 
>disk.  You are also correct that you can use IR to load DA's, CDev's, 
>and FinderExt's whenever you want them from the Mac HD.  If you use 
>Pointless, you can have your fonts on the Mac HD as well.

There was a program that worked with earlier versions of GS/OS that
would also look at a separate volume for those things as well
automatically on startup.  Unfortunately I no longer have it nor do I
know its name.  Anyone remember it and know if it works on System 6.0.1?

>The only way 
>to make the Mac HD the startup volume is to have AppleShare 3.0 installed 
>on the Mac.  This program costs $900+ retail.  If you look hard, you 
>might be able to find a copy for less than $200 (at least I did).

Won't this end up dedicating the Mac to being a file server?  I'd still
like to be able to use both systems simultaneously.

Basically I'm looking for something that will boot from a 3.5" disk and
then fool the system to _think_ it booted from the server and to always
go there for everything it needed, including things that would exist on
both the 3.5" disk and the HD.  Something like a key disk which would
retroactively bootstrap the HD.

Probably doesn't exist (yet) so I'll crosspost this to comp.sys.apple2.-
programmer.  Theoretically, could it be done?  If I were to try to do it
myself, where should I start looking and how involved would this be?

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