Re: ROM 01 GS diskless boot to Appleshare. YES IT WORKS!!!

[DoNOT@feed.trolls (SlickRCBD)]

In article <3d667aad@news.svn.net>, "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote:

> "SlickRCBD" <DoNOT@feed.trolls> wrote
> >
> > GS/OS System 4.0, which came with my ROM 1 GS had an option for booting
> > over a network, but you needed to make a special primer disk to pre-boot
> > the GS.
> >
> 
> Yeah, that works.  It's booting the IIgs with *no* disk other than the
> server that's the issue.
> I forgot one other possible explanation- I only have a complete set of GS/OS
> 6.0.1, the last version. I have boot disks for some version of 4.X and 5.X,
> but not the install disks.  It's been suggested that installing an earlier
> version of GS/OS on the server would allow a ROM 01 to do a diskless network
> boot, but  I have no way to check that without the older version of the
> install disks.  If anyone has a complete set of the older disks, perhaps it
> could be archived for posterity on one of the net sites.
> -Paul
I can provide a complete System 4.0 and a complete 5.0.4. I think I have
an almost complete 5.0.2 somewhere.

However I can only make disk copy images on a Mac at the moment because my
IIGS monitor is dead and I'm waiting until my mother's school reopens next
week before I order another on-line.

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