Re: Norton Ghost type program for IIgs?

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

"Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com> wrote:

>Hello.  Whenever I get my IIgs up and going, I want to copy one or all
>partitions to a different hard disk drive.  If the first hard drive
>physically fails, I can just get the system to boot from the second hard
>disk drive.  I am not wanting to get into images.  I have several small SCSI
>drives, so cost is not an issue. 

    You misunderstood me. Once you have the partition backed up as a '2MG'
image file, you can then use that file (with Asimov 2.0) to create a perfect
*duplicate* of the original partition on a new hardrive. Nothing is lost or
changed, not the partition map or even file order--it's the equivalent of
using Norton Ghost.

    My 240 MB Quantum SCSI drive has been slowly dying, so I recently 
made a perfect byte for byte duplicate onto a 1.2 GB IBM drive, using
Asimov to restore '2MG' image files I copied over to it (I made the same
number of ProDOS partitions and one large HFS). Unfortunately the
drive was physically too large to fit in my Pegasus internal enclosure
so I did this mostly for nothing.

>I also have one of the 3.5 superdrive cards, but no superdrives right now.
>
>My problem is that I want a full "clean install" of GS/OS 6.0.1 on my hard
>drive, but I do not have six, DS/DD, 3.5", ProDOS formatted disks with the
>six diffferent 6.0.1 disks.  All I have is a boot floppy for 6.0.1.  I have
>downloaded the image files from Apple.  I have a PC.  I also have several
>older (IIcx - 7200) Mac's in a storage building.  I am going to try to find
>one that either has a working OS and the Disk Copy and PC Exchange parts
>working properly, or try to do a clean install of Mac OS 7.6, which I have
>on CD.  Hopefully, I can set up the Mac Middle Man and get my IIgs up and
>going.

    Better yet, if that card is an "Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card" (which
allows full use of a SuperDrive) then you can do as I do. Download the
images on your PC, move them to 1.44MB DOS formatted floppy disks,
insert and read them directly from the IIgs side.

    You already have a SuperDrive, they can be found inside one of those
Macintosh IIcx's. Just pull the floppy drive from the Mac and swap it into
an external Apple 3.5 Drive. It's all very trivial, you just need a
screwdriver.

Mitchell Spector