gno 2.06 partial installation in Asimov /incoming

[roughana]

I found the gno 2.0.6 series of SHK archives a little bit cumbersome to get working with quickly in an emulator, so I've built some hard drive partitions with the default installation scripts and packed them up ready to be customised.

gnome_206.zip contains
- gno.po - ProDOS 32MB partition
- gno_hfs.po - HFS 32MB partition (contains files with names unsuitable for ProDOS)
- readme.txt which explains how the previous two images were created and what needs to be done next to customise your installation

I expect that it will find its way to
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/gs/os/gno/

There is no System Software included so you will still need your favourite flavour of GS/OS boot partition.

Beware, that 'exit' from the gno shell will logout the current user and then prompt for another login. It does not return to Finder. This may be a feature that is able to be changed with customisation. I haven't got that far yet.

Regards,
Andrew

[Stephen Heumann]

Post by roughana
Beware, that 'exit' from the gno shell will logout the current user and
then prompt for another login. It does not return to Finder. This may
be a feature that is able to be changed with customisation. I haven't
got that far yet.

You can quit out of GNO and go back to the Finder or whatever you
launched it from by running 'init 5'. You can also run 'init 0' to
shut down the system.

(An alternative way to quit GNO, occasionally useful when things are
messed up, is to use the GNO Snooper CDA to kill all the processes.)

--Stephen

[Polymorph]

From memory, you can also logout of GNO by typing "logout" when logged in as root (and only root).

Cheers,
Mike

[Polymorph]

Just a correction - Although I haven't gotten around to testing it myself personally yet (my GNO install was misbehaving), you should be able to quit GNO and go back to the Finder using "exit" when logged in as root (unless you installed the multi-user option).

I have never used "init 5" so I knew there was another way, so I Googled it on the old GNO newsgroup and got it straight from the authors mouth...erm...keyboard (Jawaid Bazyar 6/8/95!):

"Actually, init 5 is how you exit GNO's "multiuser" mode. If you
didn't install the multiuser option, 'exit' will exit GNO."

I'm guessing I never installed the multi-user mode.

Cheers,
Mike