27 Mar
2001
27 Mar
'01
6:05 a.m.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:42:50 -0800
From: Jim Arnott <jrasite(a)eoni.com>
Organization: WetWesties <http://wetwesties.org>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Mac SE/30
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Funny... all the DEC stuff that I used to care for
required bootstrap
instructions before *they'd* run... Mac OS is the same way. Needs
enough of a system to know that it's really a computer and not just a
lump of plastic and silicon. ;o)
Exactly with any machines, old dust-filled, medium old, recent, new
or smelly, shiny spanking new w/ shipping wrappers and boxes lying
besides it. All computers needs OS to become alive, even on ROMs.
Contact me off list and I'll get you a startup
diskette.
Do you don't mind telling us how one build a bootable diskette for
Mac that has OS 6.0.x and 7.x.x installed on their HD? That system
folder is too big to fit on a diskette. How is this done to get it
down to size to work? I searched the 'net for that info without
success.
That disktools diskettes I got is dumbed down and locked to a fault
and doesn't do very much besides HD rescue and HD SC init. That
disktools is stubbornly possesive of its disk even I ejected it for
another disk with different stuff.
Cheers,
Wizard
Jim