Re: Creating IIGS Disks

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Dan Foster" <usenet@evilphb.org> wrote in message 
slrndfdthd.s3s.usenet@zappy.catbert.org">news:slrndfdthd.s3s.usenet@zappy.catbert.org...
> In article <hyBJe.164829$HI.106366@edtnps84>, Wayne Stewart 
> <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote:
>> Ziggy wrote:
>>> Ok, so i cant find my system disks for my IIGS.
>>>
>>> Got a copy from apple's ftp site. Installed OS9 on my G3 powerbook since
>>> jaguar no longer  has 'disk copy'.
>>>
>>> Have an *external* usb superdisk.. Wrote the floppies, no errors.. But 
>>> it
>>> doesnt boot the IIGS....
>>>
>>> Did i try something that cant work, or anyone got any other advice?
>>>
>>> Rather frustrating.
>>
>> The IIgs uses 800k disks. None of the USB superdisks I've seen will
>> write 800k disks.
>
> Not only that... writes them in a different format (GCR) that no modern
> drive will support.
>
> Suggest the original poster consider file transfer as a possible way of
> getting the images onto the IIGS, or dig for a really old Mac. :-)

Or Paypal me $6.50 and I'll make you a complete set of GS/OS disks.
Guaranteed to work.  :o)

Bill Garber