15 May
2007
15 May
'07
11:12 a.m.
Can anyone help me with creating a boot floppy for a Color Macintosh?
I have a machine whose hard disk died and I'm trying to replace it
but I don't have a boot floppy containing DiskTools to format the new
(Apple) hard drive. I *do* have an install CD for System 7.5 but it
doesn't seem to want to boot on the Color Classic even if I hold "C"
down when I start up the Mac. I'd be happy to pay for shipping and
something extra for the effort involved in making the DiskTools boot
disk.
I think at one time you had to hold down both the C and D keys to
boot from CD on the old Macs.
I don't have a floppy drive any more so cannot help there, even
though I have just about all the Apple developer CDs ever issued,
including floppy images of the various systems.
15 May
15 May
12:09 p.m.
On May 15, 2007, at 2:12 PM, Roger Holmes wrote:
I don't have a floppy drive any more so cannot
help there, even
though I have just about all the Apple developer CDs ever issued,
including floppy images of the various systems.
I have a PC program (diskimg.exe) that claims to be able to
write .img files to floppy. Do you have a floppy image of a boot disk
that will work with the Color Classic? Could you email it to me?
Thanks,
David
3:53 p.m.
On May 15, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Geoff Reed wrote:
System 7.5.3 and later do not require an enabler to
boot on a color
classic.
Thanks! I think I see the problem. I actually have a Color Classic II
(since I replaced the original CC system board with an LC 550 system
board). I put the original board back in and am now able to boot my
DiskTools floppy. Hopefully, once I finish installing 7.5.3 update
CD, I'll be able to put the LC 550 board back in and have a 33mhz
Color Classic! Then all I have to do is find a 32MB SIMM to bring it
up to 36MB (it's at 8MB now).
4:16 a.m.
David Betz wrote:
On May 15, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Geoff Reed wrote:
Thanks! I think I see the problem. I actually have a Color Classic II
(since I replaced the original CC system board with an
LC 550 system
board). I put the original board back in and am now able to boot my
DiskTools floppy. Hopefully, once I finish installing 7.5.3 update CD,
I'll be able to put the LC 550 board back in and have a 33mhz Color
Classic! Then all I have to do is find a 32MB SIMM to bring it up to
36MB (it's at 8MB now).
I must be a young old fart ... I still remember having read a hardware
hack in Dr Dobb's on how to upgrade your (classic) mac from 128kb.
PS. I don't have socks that old regarding a earlier post.
2 p.m.
ALso, were you trying to cd-boot from an Apple rommed cd-rom drive? the last
time I booted an old mac off an non-apple cdrom drive I had to have a boot cd
with FWB's cd-rom toolkit driver(s) on it.
2:24 p.m.
Can anyone
help me with creating a boot floppy for a Color Macintosh?
I have a machine whose hard disk died and I'm trying to replace it
but I don't have a boot floppy containing DiskTools to format the new
(Apple) hard drive. I *do* have an install CD for System 7.5 but it
doesn't seem to want to boot on the Color Classic even if I hold "C"
down when I start up the Mac. I'd be happy to pay for shipping and
something extra for the effort involved in making the DiskTools boot
disk.
I think at one time you had to hold down both the C and D keys to
boot from CD on the old Macs.
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