Re: How to get a IIGS going without disks...

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"Rob Greene" <nospam-greener@charter.net> wrote in message
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> I'm certain this has been covered somewhere, but I haven't located it yet.
>
> I finally got an Apple IIGS (ROM 01) but I have not disks.  I do happen to
> have access to an older Macintosh running MacOS 9.2.2 (has DiskCopy 6.3.3
> IIRC).

What model mac are you running? Does it have an internal floppy? I don't a
usb floppy will write to DD disks. Which also brings up the question, are
you using double density disks?

>
> I grabbed the System 6.0.1 floppies and Apple II System Disk 3.2 from the
> Apple site
>
(http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/E
> nglish-North_American/Apple_II/) and wrote the images with DiskCopy.

Disk copy and the newer manual-inject drives used on later "old-world rom"
macs (which if you are running OS 9.2.2 I'm sure you have) are usually
unable to write bootable Apple II disks. The best bet is to try and find an
old mac with an auto-inject drive (no black drive door). If this is
impossible, I've heard people have had luck using a program called Disk Dup+
instead of Disk Copy to write Apple II floppies.

-Greg
>
> But they didn't work - I get the "unable to load prodos" message when I
try
> it on the real deal.
>
> From what I remember, this means the first block is loading but the PRODOS
> file cannot be found.  I opened the disks on the Macintosh, and PRODOS is
> indeed on the floppy.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated!
>
> thanks!
> -Rob