Re: 800k floppy on a Mac Classic II to transfer files to IIgs

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Oct 10, 1:58 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Jcarlson1701 wrote:
> > Thanks for all of the suggestions. Since I'm new to a IIgs and don't
> > have any software/documentation, I'm assuming that I can just do an
> > 'init' from the applesoft command line to format a disk?
>
> No, with ProDOS (unlike DOS), you'll need to run either the ProDOS
> Utility Disk and select the Format option, or use practically any
> other disk utility program (like Copy II Plus) to format disks.
Have you gotten anywhere yet?  If you still have to get off of square
zero, would it make sense to get started with ADTPro's bare-metal
bootstrapping?  It could get ProDOS started up and has a disk
formatting utility.