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cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 26 Apr 2003 : 04:02:28 I'm looking into the required stuff to network boot an Apple IIgs. I hear that this is the model that is capable of doing this. supposedly it requires AppleShare 2 or 3, which are available on HL servers... I just wonder what kind of hardware, if any, is specially required on the Apple II and/or the Macintosh side... If I can just go pick up a bare IIgs CPU and serialize it to my Macintosh I'd be ÜberHappy.... Another question... If there's a composite video out on the IIgs... is that just a standard video port for... oh say a TV...? (because I'm too cheap to pay shipping on a IIgs AND a monitor!) (remember... anything said in here is fair game for MLAgazine content) (that being said... say stuff!) - Thanks. Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
Very_Itchy_Rash Starting Member USA 6 Posts	Posted - 06 May 2003 : 15:15:56 The (now temporarily defunct) Big Apple User's Group was never sucessful in getting a IIgs to 'net boot, though it is capable of doing this. AppleShare up to 4.0 had the ability to connect Apples to the Mac Network via ProDOS, but after 4.0, that option was totally removed. Worse, if you have an older AppleShare version running without the Apple IIProDOS on it, its almost impossible to get it back on. You have to somehow reinstall that part of the software to get it to work again. Some of the Apple IIgs did have a composite RCA jack on the back; newer GS's did not. Connecting them to a TV Modulator will give you TV Output, but it would not be as crisp as a Monitor. The jack should be near or diagonally downwards from the power supply. Electronically, it is still there if you cant find the jack- Apple designed it so it would be compatible to the older Apple IIs and the montiors they used... If you dont have a TV modulator, you can connect it to a VCR and then use the VCR to send the signal through its TV Modulator and onto the TV set. Anything Else?
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 06 May 2003 : 20:07:21 so if I have a TV with an RCA jack... that's not the same as an older apple composite monitor? Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
Stryder Junior Member USA 382 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2003 : 10:39:56 That should actually work for you. It did with the //c, but I haven't yet tried it with the //gs. It's basically just a video out, the modulator was for connecting to the cable/antennea jack, IIRC, and to set which station (channel 3 or 4) for the reception. The newer tv's with a RCA video in shouldn't need it because you just switch the the tv itself to Video from cable, air, etc. "One slip and down the hole we fall" Stryders Community http://www22.brinkster.com/originalstryder/db/default.asp Come and check it out.
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 09 May 2003 : 06:09:43 OK... so at the head of my fleet I CAN have a 36" TV acting as the monitor for my IIgs. Now I need a fleet and to know how to netboot them I can imagine that I mostly want to do this because the network-booting is cheaper and more cost-effective than buying hard drives for all of them, and still using the network server because that's what I'd do anyway... Unless the machine has, and supports an external onboard scsi port like a mac? If that's the case then I can just install all the software there and I'll just only have one of them? (IIgs) Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 12 May 2003 : 04:33:27 And not only is it cheaper, but its more FUN! -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 17 May 2003 : 01:33:52 WHAT could be more fun than network booting!!! Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
boredomconquersall Full Member Canada 613 Posts	Posted - 20 May 2003 : 21:07:31 hmmmm... Jhonen Vasquez!? heheheh! search on kazaa for him. THNXxx "it'll all die a horrible death!" 10000Th poster and 1000Th AND 1500Th topic creator in lounge. and remember, if you try and install mac OS 10.2 on an early G3, you will go insane, and aquire a thirst for blood!
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 27 May 2003 : 21:36:04 I'm not even going to... I've learned that it's smart not to Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 28 May 2003 : 03:42:32 Who The Hell Is That?™ "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1

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