Re: Formatting IIgs floppies on a mac

[graalguy@yahoo.com (Ian Gowen)]

Cool. Thanks for all your help :)
-Ian

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<j0WdnczYiol3vYuiXTWJhA@comcast.com>...
> "Ian Gowen" <graalguy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > Okay. I need to create bootable 3.5" prodos diskettes for my IIgs. I
> > have a Macintosh Performa 6116 with macOS 7.5.1. In the "Erase Disk"
> > dialog, there is an option to format as an 800k ProDOS disk, but when
> > I do that and try to boot my II with it it comes up with "Unable to
> > load prodos". Any ideas as to what may be the problem? Also, on a side
> > note, what format does DiskDup+ use, and how can I use it to create
> > IIgs disks?
> > -Ian
> 
> Hi Ian,
> 
> DiskDup+ is similar to Disk Copy 4.2 and 6.3.3. I basically uses
> the same images as Disk Copy. Simply load an image, it will mount
> then insert a blank disk and it will write the contents of the image
> to the disk. VOILA! ProDOS disk bootable in your IIgs. The problem
> with this is, there are not as many disks in this format as there are in
> other formats, but once you have a good copy of GS/OS to copy to
> copy to your hard drive (IIgs) or load, then you can get ShrinkIt and/or
> DSK2FILE and make other disks right on the IIgs. If HFS.FST is installed
> on the boot disk of the IIgs then HFS (Mac) formatted disks can be read/
> written on the IIgs. It's a snap, just takes some time to get used to it.
> ;-)
> 
> Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
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> Email - willy46pa@comcast.net
> 
> 
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