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IIgs netboot idea.
G'day!
In the last couple of days a couple of random discoveries made me dream
something up. I wanted to run it by everyone here.
Recently I discovered a product called the AsanteTalk Ethernet bridge. It
seems to be a fairly venerable product that acts as a bridge between
AppleTalk and Ethernet. It still however uses AppleTalk.
Also in the last couple of days I did a basic fileserver install of Debian
on a small IDE harddrive to aid in the recovery and copying of some of my
old files. It installed the AppleTalk daemon which actually surprised me a
little. I didn't realise it was a core part of the file server install. But
then I've never done a canned install before.
Anyway after a while the two items sort of connected in my mind.
I started to think it may be possible to make an HFS image and set it up as
a loopback device, or even a small hfs formatted harddrive to plop the
necessary bootfiles for the IIgs on.
The only reason I was thiking HFS is for the preservation of resource forks.
Unfortunately I don't know of a ProDOS fs driver for linux, however
incredibly useful it would be.
If these steps and ideas actually worked then some more interesting hacks
would be possible, like an altered userland driver specifically for this
purpose allowing disk images to be entered like directories. Imagine how
useful that would be :)
I would like to try all this out myself, however I'm having the standard
problem. Every one of the bridges I have found are in the US, and at a
premium price too.
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.
Tristan.
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