On Jan 16, 6:42 am, becherer wrote:
i let the installer run to see what would happen and it took over a hour to
copy the network system startup to the mac. the gs was capable of booting
diskless from the mac, but you would never want to use it. i had to cut my
testing short, but i would estimate it would have taken at least 15 minutes
to boot the gs.
If it would have taken 15 minutes to boot the GS, something was
definitely wrong. When I netboot my GS from my netatalk+a2boot server,
it takes longer than booting from a hard drive but less or at worst
about the same amount of time as booting from a floppy.
Did you have any other devices plugged into your Localtalk segment
when booting the GS from your os8.5 machine?