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Apple //e Boot Blocks are used by the Apple II Workstation Card and the Apple //e Card for Macintosh LC to initiate a network boot. For the Workstation Card, it is a true network boot and the boot blocks are downloaded from the server. The Apple //e Card loads them from its application file instead.
The purpose of the boot blocks are to install ProDOS in memory, initialize AppleTalk, and allow the user to logon to a file server. Ultimately, the end result is that the system achieves a diskless startup.
These AppleShare Apple //e boot blocks use the latest version of the logon program and are available with ProDOS 2.0.3 (the last official release from Apple) or ProDOS 2.4.1 by John Brooks.
ProDOS 2.4.1 has been patched to work around bugs in Bitsy Bye related to the Apple //e Card for Macintosh LC.
This assumes you already have Netatalk with Apple II boot working.
Download the boot blocks file, expand with gunzip, and copy to the a2boot subdirectory of the netatalk config directory. Name the file Apple :2f:2fe Boot Blocks
. You probably want to back up your existing file first.
I don't personally run this so it is untested, but you will likely need to change the type and creator after finding a way to get the expanded file onto your Macintosh. The file will need to be named Apple //e Boot Blocks
and you should back up your existing one.
Also, see NetBoot LC for an alternative to updating boot blocks in the IIe Startup
application.
IIe Startup
in ResEdit.BBLK
resources in the copy of IIe Startup
, there should be one resource with ID 5120.BBLK
ID 5120.BBLK
resources in the decoded file.BBLK
resources in the copy of IIe Startup
.IIe Startup
on your way out.