Re: ProDOS CDs

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.dotnet>]

Sean McNamara wrote:

> Just a report back - thanks Wayne for giving me the tips to make a 
> successful ProDOS CD. I had to jump through a few hoops, but here's what 
> worked...
>
> 1. Installed Toast 3.5.5 onto 575 - unfortunately, it didn't recognise 
> my CD burner, but it was still essential to the end result. Toast Deluxe 
> 4.1 crashes, so I'll troubleshoot that later to try and reduce the 
> number of steps and transfer times below.
>
> 2. Connected SCSI drive from IIgs onto Mac and started up - HD didn't 
> mount anyway, so could leave it on.
>
> 3. Ran Toast and chose Device copy, but, with no working CD-RW drive, 
> chose to save as a disk image on the desktop. Went through pretty 
> quickly.
>
> 4. gzipped the resulting disk image (reduced size from 41 to 17MB) then 
> transferred via AppleTalk to my PowerBook. Have to troubleshoot the 
> 575's ethernet card to make this faster than 15 minutes :)
>
> 5. ungzipped the .iso file and used Disk Utility in OS X to burn to disk.
>
> 6. Got CD-ROM drive and HD working on IIgs after much hassle with IDs 
> and terminators. Renamed HD to avoid conflict.
>
> 7. Inserted CD - voile! It turned up on the GS/OS desktop. Hooray!
>
> Thanks Wayne - if I can get Toast 4.1 working I might be able to follow 
> your instructions more closely :)

Still, you came up with a method that works with the hardware and
software on hand. When I first did one I danced a little jig around
my livingroom.

Wayne