--- On Mon, 3/23/09, mvinyard26 <[email protected]> wrote:
> of System 7 on ebay (still working on getting a floppy > drive to use on > my new imac). For around $40, I managed to find a hard > drive, hard > drive caddy, cables, a mouse, The OS, and an ADB keyboard > cable. You can download System 7.0.1 and System 7.5.3 and the update to 7.5.5 for free from Apple, links near the bottom of this page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_7_(Macintosh) The SE/30 has a 1.44M floppy, so you can make System 7.0.1 disks with your iMac, once you get the floppy drive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE/30 7.5.3 is another story because Apple's download is NOT floppy disk images. It's one image in 19 (20 for some languages) floppy sized chunks. The reason for that is so you can copy the chunks to floppies then copy them to your Mac that has nothing but a floppy and hard drive. Place all the chunks in one folder then doubleclick the one with .smi on the end of its name. The image will mount on the desktop and you may install 7.5.3 from there or you can copy everything out of the image to your hard drive (it installs faster that way) or to some bigger removable storage like a Zip drive or Magneto Optical. The 7.5.5 update is three floppy images. The irritating thing about it is if you have a nicely customized install of 7.5.3, the 7.5.5 update will 'un-customize' it by installing all sorts of extensions and printer drivers for things your Mac doesn't have, then you have to dig in and delete all the useless items. (AFAIK, all pre-OS X Mac OS/System updaters do that.) Yup, Apple's 'it just works' is achieved through filling up the hard drive with all the drivers for hardware you *might* use some day. ;) Gain a few megs back by removing what you'll never need. (Especially good for sub-gigabyte drives.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
