Re: AppleTalk

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

"Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:iYySa.12786$1q6.462@nwrddc04.gnilink.net...
> Scott Alfter <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote in message
> news:iTrSa.11718$Bp2.8589@fed1read07...
> That's what I had in mind:
> - select a disk image from the server (networked computer)
> - transfer the disk image file via AppleTalk
> - expand the disk image onto the slot 5 RAM disk
> - run from the slot 5 RAM disk as if it were the floppy from which the DSK
> image was made
> - when done, update the disk image on the server.

Dude, that'll take way longer than booting it up from the
floppy. If you run GS/OS, I believe 4 and up, you can boot
from floppy and snag and manioulate all your files from the
Mac. If your 3.5" disk is taking a long time to boot, you more
than likely have too much on it. Much more than you actually
need to operate.

> Unfortunately, it sounds like this could only work with a Mac as a
> fileserver if it were running Appleshare 3.0 and System 7.  There remains
> the possibility of doing this for a PC as a fileserver though.  Also, it
> probably wouldn't work with DOS 3.3 titles without faking a Disk II device
> signature and replacing the RWTS interface code.

PC-MacLan does work, after you're booted up and AppleShare is
running on the GS. I can share my entire PC with the GS, but I am
not sure there is room on a 3.5" disk for everything and that.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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