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Re: IIgs netboot idea.
Rusty wrote:
> On Apr 11, 9:25 pm, Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumf...@xgmail.xcom>
> wrote:
>> G'day!
>> ...
>> So if there's anyone across the ocean that wants to give this a try or
>> has already done so I'd love to hear about it.
>
> I have (on loan from my roommate) a device called a Cayman Gatorbox
> CS. It sounds fairly similar to the device of which you speak. The
> Gatorbox has an ethernet plug and a localtalk plug, and it will bridge
> the two networks together at layer 2.
Sounds pretty similar to me too.
>
> I am currently mounting file shares from my FreeBSD server on my Apple
> IIGS via the AppleShare functionality in the GS/OS 6.0.1 finder.
>
> I have the "netatalk" package (which includes atalkd, which manages
> the AppleTalk protocol for the machine, and afpd which does the actual
> file serving) installed on the FreeBSD machine, as well as having the
> AppleTalk protocol enabled on the machine's kernel. In order for it to
> work with the GS/OS, you have to tell afpd to use the uams_randnum.so
> authentication library. (I am not exactly sure what scrambling or
> encryption this method uses for the passwords; presumably it is more
> secure than uams_plaintext, but who knows by how much. On my home
> network, it matters very little anyway.)
>
> So, once you have the GS/OS up and running, you can mount network
> shares off of any filesystem that FreeBSD supports, using my current
> setup. (It doesn't matter if the GS has an FST for the actual
> filesystem on the FreeBSD machine; the FreeBSD machine exports the
> files in the share on a file-by-file basis, and the GS/OS uses the
> ATalk.fst (or something like that, I'm not sure if that's the exact
> name) FST in order to interpret the mounted volume).
So it doesn't cause problems with filetypes? Cool.
>
> There is a program called a2boot that is included in the netatalk
> distribution. This program is supposed to extend netatalk's
> functionality in order to allow you to boot an Apple IIGS from the
> netatalk+a2boot server.
I didn't know about that part of the package. Thanks for telling me!
> Unfortunately, a2boot needs some bootstrap
> files to send over the network to the Apple IIGS, namely:
>
> ProDOS16 Boot_Blocks
> Apple IIe Boot Blocks
> ProDOS16 Image
>
> (I would imagine you don't actually need the Apple IIE Boot Blocks
> file to boot an IIGS, but who knows.)
>
> I do not have any of these files, so I have never been able to netboot
> any of my IIGSes.
>
> I am led to believe that these files are supplied with the "AppleShare
> Server 3.0" diskette for the Macintosh (System 7, I think). I think I
> have a copy of this disk at my office somewhere, but it will take some
> work to find it. It's also possible that I ended up giving it back to
> the person from whom I had borrowed it. I will have to check to be
> sure.
>
> If I can find and read this disk, I will post a link to the boot files
> here. Alternatively, if anyone else has this disk, I would really
> appreciate it if you could post or send me a copy of them.
The disk image for the mac is freely downloadable for the older version of
the server. The update to the server is the final disk of system 6. It is
mac formatted. Just grab it from the old software part of the Apple server.
At worst I might be able to grab the files off my mac for you and package
them somehow. There would be quite a long turnaround on that though because
I don't have much time these days, so you may probably be better off trying
to find it elsewhere first off.
>
> Finally, does anyone know how to netboot (even in theory) a ROM 01
> IIGS? AppleTalk does not show up as a boot option in my "Slots"
> Control Panel at all. Is the idea supposed to be that you just set it
> to Slot 7, or {Slot 1, Slot 2}, the slot you are using for AppleTalk?
> Or are ROM 01 GSes not able to netboot, perhaps?
Yes. A ROM1 can netboot. I do it with my Mac Classic, even with mac system
6.
You need to set the printer or modem slot to "Your Card" and slot 7 to
AppleTalk.
Tristan.
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