--- On Sun, 9/19/10, Ian Batty <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, folks,
>
> I have a number of 128K-style Macs that I've rescued, but
> no startup disks.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to generate these disks?
>
> *Assume* I have no other Macs, just (urrghh) Windows XP/98
> platforms to work from.
>
> And a couple iMac G3s, but no USB floppy dives.
To write or read a 400K or 800K Mac floppy from a disk image you need...
A. A Mac with a floppy drive and some way to get the image file onto its hard
drive, and Apple's Disk Copy program.
B. A PC or Amiga with a CatWeasel floppy controller and the software to write
low density mac floppies.
C. (possibly) an Amiga with a Mac emulation cartridge and software. I dunno if
that can write low density Mac disks using the Amiga's floppy drive.
D. An AEHD 1.44M external floppy drive with the low density disk image on a
1.44M Mac disk. Problem there is this aftermarket drive requires a driver on
the low density boot floppy because the AEHD can't be booted from. (If only the
inventor had figured out some method of a ROM bootstrap loader in the drive
that'd load the AEHD driver into RAM then hand off the boot to the 1.44M drive.)
E. One of the old external hard drives that connects to the Mac's external
floppy port and a newer Mac with both a 1.44M drive and an external floppy
port. Setting up one of those drives is a good use for the original LC.
So if all your Macintosh computers are the Plus or older and you have no
bootable floppies at all, the only way to get things rolling is to obtain a
ready made bootable floppy from someone else.
With 1.44M Mac disks, writing *uncompressed* Disk Copy images to floppies is as
simple as getting a port of the Linux utility rawrite for your OS. For
compressed Disk Copy images you need a real Mac or a Mac emulator.
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