I have my SE/30 running System 7.1 right now, and it all works great
(thanks again, everyone!), but I was wondering...
How would I go about having a second System folder on it for System 6.0.8?
(without resorting to booting from floppy. ;) )
It has one drive with one partition currently. Can I
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> How would I go about having a second System folder on it for System 6.0.8?
> (without resorting to booting from floppy. ;) )
You just have the two folders. When you place both a finder and system
file in a folder, it "unblesses" the old
On Nov 13, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Scott Lawrence
wrote:
How would I go about having a second System folder on it for System
6.0.8? (without resorting to booting from floppy. ;) )
You just have the two folders. When you place both a finder
Excellent. Can I just run the System 6 installer and it will create a
second System folder, or should i rename/move the System 7 folder
aside first, or some other method? (which works best in your
experience?)
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:22
From: Clark Martin
On Nov 13, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Scott Lawrence wrote:
>
>How would I go about having a second System folder on it for System 6.0.8?
>(without resorting to booting from floppy. ;) )
>
>You
>From my own long-time memory, no machine to check which of these works with
>6/7/8 system, but try these:
1) cmd-opt open system folder. That blesses it.
2) in control panel/chooser choose startup drive then start it up
3) drag system folder (smiley face mac) to desktop. close system folder. dro
bs to
lead you to the program.
Jon.
-Original Message-
From: Longcore Jonathan
To: vintage-macs
Sent: Wed, Nov 13, 2013 5:35 pm
Subject: Re: Dual boot a SE(/30)
>From my own long-time memory, no machine to check which of these works with
6/7/8 system, but try these:
1) cmd-
Gee, the Doc mentions being a 'Nix fellow. Isn't it possible to use a GRUB
boot-loader-like-setup for the MacOS of those vintages?
Jeff
From: Scott Lawrence
To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 8:22 AM
Subject: D
On 14 Nov, 2013, at 1:59 am, J.S. Garrison wrote:
> Gee, the Doc mentions being a 'Nix fellow. Isn't it possible to use a GRUB
> boot-loader-like-setup for the MacOS of those vintages?
Unfortunately, booting Linux on ancient Macs usually involves booting a Mac
System part-way first. The bootl
On 11/13/2013 7:00 PM, Jonathan Morton wrote:
On 14 Nov, 2013, at 1:59 am, J.S. Garrison wrote:
Gee, the Doc mentions being a 'Nix fellow. Isn't it possible to use a GRUB
boot-loader-like-setup for the MacOS of those vintages?
Unfortunately, booting Linux on ancient Macs usually involves boot
At 8:22 -0800 11/13/13, Scott Lawrence wrote:
>How would I go about having a second System folder on it for System 6.0.8?
>(without resorting to booting from floppy. ;) )
Personal experience:
I actually use an SE/30 as a file server for my Linux and OS 10.3.9 or earlier
Macs. There I have inst
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To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Dual boot a SE(/30)
At 8:22 -0800 11/13/13, Scott Lawrence wrote:
>How would I go about having a second System folder on it for System
>6.0.8? (without resorting to booting from floppy. ;) )
Personal experience:
I actually use an SE/3
Just a follow up on this. I ended up doing it last night. It was actually
quite easy once I learned how to do it. A key part of it was getting
"System Picker"... thanks, Jpoliti!
- SE30 has 7.1 on it.
- Make the two 6.0.8 floppies (1.4 meg)
- Boot from the 6.0.8 floppy
- on the hard drive,
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Jonathan Morton wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, booting Linux on ancient Macs usually involves booting a
> Mac System part-way first. The bootloader is a MacOS Extension.
I used to run MacBSD (which was NetBSD's mac branch) on a machine or two in
the 90s. I don't rem
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