Re: Booting IIGS over AppleTalk Beige G3

[Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser@floodgap.com>]

Marsha <menacechgo@aol.com> writes:

>as it says in the FAQ
>"Booting an Apple II over Appletalk is not a trivial task, 
>even though the System 6.0/6.0.1 include "disks" to support it. To boot an 
>Apple II over Appletalk, you must also own Apple's Appleshare 2.x or 3.x"
>http://www.apple2.org/faq/FAQ.csa2.403.html
>I can't remember how much luck I had using the Appleshare server on OS9.  

I would imagine not much. I don't think OS 9 will run either version; my
SE/30, which can netboot my IIgs, runs 6.0.8 and ASFS 2.

>I've heard OSX doesn't support serial ports.

It does support them (as ttys), but it does not support LocalTalk.

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