Using disk copy in basilisk ii1/9/2023 ![]() The reason I ask is that the Mac Classic has a built-in System. That said, I had a similar problem getting an OS onto a bare Quadra and solved it, so.įirst off, it should probably be clarified, what OS does your Classic have on it again? There's no such thing as Mac OS "6.8.1". ![]() PD: If you want the best experience with your reconstructed SE/30, would be also good spend a few buck in this little device and forget the floppies forever and ever.It's been a *long* time, so you'd probably be better served by someone with a fresher memory. Your best bet would be take these converted images that you already have, create the floppies and and install them in your machine. Otherwise you could never create the disks that you already have with your USB floppy, as these devices (and any PC floppy in general) will not support any of the Apple specific formatted media. Seems that the drive in your SE/30 supports PC 1.44 media. I'm not aware that WinImage can do such conversions, at least no directly. WinImage was designed with PC/DOS format in mind and it will refuse to load anything even a little different. PC/DOS on-disk format is very different from Mac one. img that can be loaded by WinImage ?Ībout your question. IMAGE from BA FTP )īzzBR wrote: So, does anyone knows how to convert the. Here are the pictures of my SE/30 running a 7.0.1 install disk created by Winimage using a. But why to take the easy path, huh ? ( actually I did a test, see below the pictures ) The easy path is download the files from internet converted/dumped already in. Of course, my main objective is to setup my MAC SE/30, but NOW I would like to know if I can create the installs disk from a CopyDisk image using only a PC with a USB floppy drive. So, does anyone knows how to convert the. I will need to do it on another PC with a internal floppy disk. I tried OmniFlop to read the image and save it to floppy. I will need to do it on another PC with a XP. I found another utility that seems to convert the files I need, the "XGS utility Imgutnew.exe", but it does not work on win64. May be because it is not a CopyDisk 4.2 image ( probably it is a CopyDisk 6.X) I tried to use the floptool but it did not worked as expected. ( and then use the WINIMAGE to save it to a floppy disk - it is explained here. Floptool might be able convert a DiskCopy 4.2. Based on the info found on Patrick's guide and trying to find his other guide "Writing images using DiskCopy" I found another piece of good info : floptool from MESS (. Following Patrick's guide, I found we can use HFVExplorer to manipulate some apple images on PC. ![]() I didn't know, but you can also run the A/UX on a MAC SE/30 ( More info here ). The recommend MAC OS for a SE/30 is versions 6.0.8 or 7.0.1/7.1 ( although it also run 7.5.3 ).Ĭ. This is the info I was looking for to start my tests.ī. What I learned until now (with your help) :Ī.IMAGE are Apple Disk Copy image files. IMAGE files I got from BA FTP file Apple Mac OS 7.5.3 (3.5'') on a PC ( Win8.1) and create the floppy disks on this PC using a USB floppy drive. IMAGE files are DiskCopy images, I'm trying to read the. The collective wisdom is great !! I learned a lot with the info you all posted above.
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