Can I make a bootable System 7.5.3 Network Access Disk with OS9 for my SE/30? If so, what's the best way to do it? It seems nothing is working for me.
About my set up sand what I'm doing: The SE/30 has a Zip drive instead of a floppy, but I have an external CD ROM (Apple 300i). I've set all my SCSI IDs: ID#0 - Internal HDD w/ built-in terminator, ID#5 - Internal ZIP Drive (not sure if it is terminated, but I've tried unplugging it to get the CD ROM working, no change), ID#3 - External CD-ROM, terminated the end of the external chain on the CD ROM (w/ Apple Active Terminator). The Original HDD stopped working, but it was fully bootable before, and there's no odd sounds or patterns on the screen at boot, but I haven't once heard the start up tone, which may mean my sound is bad. I have no noticeable cap leaks, and I just put in a brand new battery I ordered off the web. I have 2 extra hard drives. One is blank, the other boots, but then turns to a Sad Mac with code ####, which I believe means corrupted file system. I'm using a Powerbook G3 Pismo booted in OS 9.2.2 with a USB Zip drive and a Firewire CD/DVD burner to create the install disks. The OS could be my problem. I have no access to any other 68k Macs. I downloaded the System 7.5.3 Network Access Disk in the 19 parts, I was able to run the self extracting script to turn them into one disk image—but as I was running OS9 on a Powerbook, and not a 68k Mac—the installer to make a bootable disk didn't work, so I just mounted the disk image to the desktop and copied the System folder, Application folder, etc to both a Zip 100 disk and a CD formatted for HFS Standard. I also added the CD ROM and Iomega Zip extensions to the Extensions folders of each disk. I'm still not able to get my SE/30 to boot off either disk. I've tried holding down Command + Option + Shift +Delete, as well as Command + Option + Shift +Delete + SCSI ID#. When I hold down for the keys to boot SCSI ID3 (the CD ROM's ID) I get the Floppy + ? until I let go of the keys, then it tries to boot my HDD, giving the Happy Mac for a few second, then goes to the Sad Mac with the above mentioned code. I'm guessing this means I'm not creating a proper disk, but maybe it's bad hardware? Hope not! Please, anyone out there, let me know if there's something I'm doing wrong! My technical experience only really goes back to the PPC days, my first Mac was a 7600 running 7.6. I haven' felt with anything from this time period before, and I've only had limited SCSI use before this. THANK YOU ALL! -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of 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 vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
