27 Mar
2001
27 Mar
'01
5:30 a.m.
From: "Billy D'Augustine"
<azog(a)azog.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Mac SE/30
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:31:57 -0500
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Ok, this is getting to be more trouble than it's
worth, and I'm not in the
mood to go hunting things down. Basically, I'm a Mac-neophyte, and I guess
I'll stay that way. So far, this is the only machine I've ever used that
requires an OS to be installed, before you can install an OS! Sorry, not for
me. I'm not naturally an idiot - I've been there for PDP-11's running RSX
and RT-11 , VAXen running VMS (as well as bare machines of the same ilk),
and a host of other machines I cannot even remember off the top of my head,
and can at least deal with these.
This is reason I suggested starting building up a OS on external
drive via basilisk II emulator. You can download bare system boot
disk image and rawrite (Linux packages or linux download has it) it
to a blank 1.44MB disk and load it with a getrom that came with
basilisk II package via the HVF explorer. Boot up that diskette, run
getrom to pull rom data off the SE/30 onto that disk, transfer it to
basilisk II on your peecee, run basilisk and with new OS 7.0.1 or
6.0.8 (both free) copied over to hard drive HFS image for that
basilisk II emulator. Finally create a external HD w/ good OS on it.
The rest of it is easy, point and click.
The trick is that mac internal HD given a low number ID while that
external bootable HD given a higher ID. The Mac searches for
bootable drive starting with ID 6 to 0, the system host being ID 7.
When it finds the bootable drive on the scsi chain even you have
more than 3 bootable HD drives, it's the first drive with highest ID
number found on that chain and boots from that. That's how I found
out when I hooked two bootable HDs to mac.
This way, you can bypass the SE/30 OS on that internal hd and deal
with that.
I was like that with Mac but it was easier because I already worked
with peecees, naturally follows through despite that Mac is
different but much simpler and easier than winblows or even PDP from
what I see on 'net and on that list!
Cheers,
Wizard
>
> .smi is supposed to go with bunch of .part files. Put them on
> mac emulator like basilisk II or on paste them on mac formatted
> external hd attached to pc via HVF explorer (raw data fork, please),
> yank it, reattach the hd to mac, and double click on one of them. It
> will self assemble and plop itself in ramdrive, copy it to a new
> folder.