It won't work. I use a USB Superdisk (1.4mb floppy & 120mb floppy) drive while booted in Classic to make mine.
You could get another Compact and use it for that purpose. It always helps to have another lying around. On 11/30/05 3:00 PM, "Compact Macs" <[email protected]> wrote: > Subject: Re: Creating Boot Floppies in OS X > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:49:53 -0000 > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Brierley, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Well, I've had a play with the "bless" command in OS X but it doesn't = > seem to help with creating boot disks. > > I got a blank, formatted (under 7.5.3) floppy. > > Copied the System folder from a known good boot (OS 8.1) disk image. > > At the Terminal did: > > sudo bless -folder9 "/Volumes/18/System Folder" > > Would only run with sudo, and the folder9 option specifies a non OS X = > folder. But it doesn't work. The disk just gets spat out at startup. "Remember, No matter where you go....there you are." -- Buckaroo Bonzai -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
