ADTPro Image transfer problem

[oz390gta]

I am new to the group, I have been a long time Apple II user as most
of the group probably are. I have decided to dust off a few old
machines and get them going again (2e,2c,2gs). I just kitted out my GS
Rom3 with a Uthernet card and CF card drive. Now the problem, I can't
get the Marinetti drivers onto the machine. I figured that ADTPro
looked the easiest. I got it working so that I can bootstap it with
the serial client but when I go to receive the client to a disk it
asks for the filename, which appears to be ADTPRO-1.1.3.DSK but once I
type that in the ADTPro client says "WAITING FOR HOST RELY" and then
just sits there.

Do the images need to be in a specific directory? Do I need to
initiate anything from the server??

Any help is greatly appreciated. Once I get this working I will
certainly have a lot more questions as I have also dusted off my
MicroPrint localtalk to 10BaseT adapter and also an Apple III that has
not seen action ever. I aslo have a few 2GS prototypes but they have
hardware issues that are a bit beyond me at the moment.

Any help is appreciated.

oz390gta

[Polymorph]

On Dec 21, 2:45 pm, oz390gta <oz390...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Any help is appreciated.

Welcome! Whilst I thoroughly recommend you keep trying to get to the
bottom of the problem that you're experiencing with ADTPro (its an
excellent piece of software!), have you considered simply plugging the
CF card into a card reader and using Ciderpress (http://
ciderpress.sourceforge.net/) to copy the Marinetti drivers onto your
system? This is by far and away the quickest way of transferring data
onto CF drives, provided you have access to a machine capable of
running Ciderpress. To do this you open the CF card volume from within
Ciderpress and copy files directly onto it.

In fact, if you are wanting to setup a new system in the shortest time
possible, I find the best way to do it is to perform the entire setup
running under emulation - create the necessary hard disk images within
Ciderpress, mount the images from within your favourite IIgs emulator,
install everything how you want it, then transfer the hard disk image
onto your CF card. Hey presto, your IIgs is configured! You can also
keep backups of the entire system in this way, and restoring is a
snap.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Mike

[schmidtd]

On Dec 20, 10:45 pm, oz390gta <oz390...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]

> Do the images need to be in a specific directory? Do I need to
> initiate anything from the server??

The images can be in any directory you choose - you can change
directory either from the client or from the server. But that's not
what's causing the client to wait.

The symptoms you are seeing (successful bootstrap, unsuccessful 2-way
connection) points to your null modem cable. I've detailed exactly
what the pinouts should be for various types of machines that are
proven to work. If you have something different, it might not work.
They are listed here:
http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/connectionsserial.html

[Joe]

> I aslo have a few 2GS prototypes but they have
> hardware issues that are a bit beyond me at the moment.

Hardware issues or not, could you tell us what prototypes they are?

There aren't too many of those that escaped Apple, so I'd sure be
interested in hearing about them. Thanks.

Joe Kohn

[oz390gta]

Joe,

Both are in IIe enclosures, with help with information from a friend I
believe one is a Cortland minus its ROM, the other is a Gumby. The
Cortland powers up but nothing else (I guess missing ROM will do that),
the Gumby powers up but there is just garbage on the screen. Both have
Sandwich II High Speed SCSI cards.

I will get around to investigating them more this year and try to get
them running.