If you do use 1.44Mb floppies, just tape over the hole on the side other then the write protect hole. This will make newer disk drives read it as a 800K disk. I was able to make the boot disks for my Plus on my G3 Minitower. You don't have any other Macs? That might make it harder... I was able to get an external HD for mine, as that's the way I'm used to running computers. :) Anyways, just some useful info- When I was trying to make boot disks, I didn't know about the hole that told the computer it was 1.44Mb or 800K. As soon as I found out (And on the vintage macs group, too!) it was easy to get it to boot on the disk.
Elliott (Formerly Cyrus) -------------------- Hobbittech.com Mac Specialist - Low Cost Mac Services in AZ On May 28, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Clark Martin wrote: > > Dark_Mac wrote: >> Hi Sterling, >> >> Check out this site, it has information on how to make Mac OS disks >> using your PC. >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/pc2mac.html >> >> I also suggest you go to mactracker.ca and get Mactracker as it has a >> lot of data relating to everything Apple. It states that the Mac >> Plus has an 800KB floppy drive so you will need disks of that size/ >> format or will need to reformat some 1.44MB down to 720 KB (PC) / >> 800KB (Mac). >> >> If you have trouble please contact me off-list and I will help you >> any way I can. I will even make you some system disks. > > A stock PC disk drive cannot format, read or write to an Apple 800K > disk. That format disk uses Group Coded Recording (GCR) which allows > for more space on the disk (800K vs 720). And a Mac Plus can ONLY > read/write 400 or 800K GCR disks. > > You will need a Mac to create boot disks for a Plus. > > -- > Clark Martin > Redwood City, CA, USA > Macintosh / Internet Consulting > > "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
