Thanks Chris and J White for your responses. 

Alas, the SE FDHD that I've gotten my hands on has two floppy drives and no 
internal hard drive (and also no floppy boot disks, which is a bit of a 
pain).

Anyway, I am thinking of two possibilities now:

-- an external hard drive (to bootm from). However I'm not sure which and 
what drive to get . I'd prefer an Apple branded external drive but I can't 
seem to find any (apart from eBay though the drive is located in US - 
somewhat expensive shipping!). I am not sure what other external SCSI 
drives might work - any ideas? I'd actually seen the website that Chris 
sent, but it doesn't seem to give any concrete ideas about the type of 
external SCSI drive that I should be looking for (eBay is not much help 
either, as there are very few sub-200 MB SCSI HD drives on there, either 
internal or external).

-- an external ZIP drive (to boot from). I've looked through what needs to 
be done, and it seems fairly simply (apart from making sure the driver 
partition of the ZIP disk is formatted to the correct version). I have an 
some old PowerMac G3s lurking somewhere which I'm sure must have a ZIP 
drive on - and thus could be used to transfer data.

If anybody has any suggestions (or pitfalls/advice) then I'd appreciate any 
advice for anything I hadn't thought of, or your own experience. Or if 
anybody knows where I could get a quick and cheap System 6/7 floppy disk 
from that would be great (the only device I have with a floppy disk is some 
Dell PC with Windows on which I think would be a problem when formatting 
the disk due to different filesystems.

Thanks for your help - any contributions of ideas would always be helpful :)

J.

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