Re: Boot System 6.0.1 on a Zip 250 disk from floppy?

Kathleen Hartz <PHartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

However , when I boot the thus created Startup disk I get a message
something like " Can not load Startup GSOS file " and the dreaded
swooping cursor.

I may be wrong, but this doesn't sound like a boot block problem. If
a ProDOS volume is missing a boot block, then the error on startup is
something like:

"Not a startup disk"

If the boot block is there but the ProDOS file is missing, the error is
something like:

"Unable to load ProDOS"

Once the ProDOS loader file is loaded and executed, it looks for the
Start.GS.OS file inside the System directory in the root directory. If
it can't find it, it gives an error message similar to:

"Unable to load Start.GS.OS file"

(This is from memory, so the exact text of the message may differ.) It
sounds from your message that the Start.GS.OS file is missing or corrupt.
It should be a GS/OS system file with an auxtype of $000D and be located
in the System directory. The System directory must be in the root
directory of the boot disk.

Can someone help?
or shoud I go with a CF card instead of a used hard drive?
Or will the Zip drive suffice?

Zip drives are useful for backup, but I wouldn't keep one as my main
hard drive for very long. They pose two problems for GS/OS. 1) They're
removeable, and 2) They go to sleep. GS/OS doesn't handle either case
very well with the current drivers.

There is a driver out there called the Tulin floptical driver that solves
these problems. It was written by a guy called -- this is from memory --
Wing Cheung or something like that. He had a Compuserve address for the
longest time. If you have that driver Zip drives are much better behaved
on the Apple II. [Anyone know what happened to him? Or his driver? -ed]

If your hard drive is shot and you're willing to spend the money, I'd go
with a CFFA card or a CF-Focus as a hard drive replacement. That's my
preference, anyway.

Good luck,
Mike
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