Re: netatalk + a2boot

[Wendell III <wendell.iii@gmail.com>]

Hi Steve,

I got ahold of Marsha actually -- via email, at that same address. She said:

""

I have been able to boot a GS using either a Gatorbox or a Farralon 
EtherWave Mac ( I think, I'd have to dig and find waht model it was) 
from my Linux box at the time...
�
Somewhere I think I wrote some documentation, especially regarding the 
three files in troika-2.tar.gz�

$Id: README,v 1.1 �2003/01/20
�
troi�ka
1.a. A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
� b. A team of three horses abreast.
�
Copy the three files into��� (PKGCONFDIR)/a2boot/
In my case this was�� /etc/atalk/netatalk/a2boot/
�
�ProDOS16 Boot_Blocks
�Apple :2f:2fe Boot Blocks
�ProDOS16 Image
�
The case of the file names needs to match that in
�source file���� contrib/a2boot/Makefile.am

""

In any case, the code was in /contrib in the current non-CVS tarball of 
Netatalk (which is from 2005). I have no idea if the patches were ever 
fully implemented into the codebase...

-Wendell



On 2007-03-07 10:34:58 -0800, "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net> said:

> Wendell III wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Has anyone here been able to get an Apple IIe or IIGS to successfully 
> > boot from a netatalk server using the a2boot support code? Scouring 
> > around online a bit, I haven't spotted anything. Does anyone know who 
> > the original contributing author is?
>
> Works fine here for both platforms.  Marsha Jackson did most of the 
> heavy lifting to get the boot daemon working and I merged the code into 
> the netatalk build.  Did it ever appear in the netatalk code base? The 
> developers seemed utterly disinterested in adopting the patches.
>
> It's been so many years since I've messed with it that I couldn't being 
> to explain to how to bootstrap the setup.  If mine went away tomorrow, 
> I probably would not be able to recreate a working boot server - as 
> embarrassing as that is to admit..
>
> The last e-mail address I had for Marsha (who I've not heard from in 4 
> or 5 years) is: MenaceChgo@aol.com
>
> Can you outline (a) where you picked up the code (so I can see if it 
> resembles my CVS sandbox) and (b) what you've tried?
>
> Steve

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