I have an external USB floppy disk drive for my eMac running OS 10.2. I would like to create boot disks for older Mac System Software. To do this I erased the disk using Disk Utility with the format set to Mac OS Standard. However, they do not want to work. For example, I created a System 7.1 boot disk (from Gamba) and, when I tried to boot up either the IIsi or the Color Classic it rejected the disk. So, I copied the contents to a hard drive on a working IIsi, erased the disk and then moved the software back on to the reformatted disk. Tried again, this time got the Happy Mac and was told the System Software was too old.
That was ok, I was getting some progress. When I went through the process with a System 7.5.3 boot disk it told me I needed Disk Tools 1. Again ok. I just need to get the right System Software for the right machine.
BUT the crux of my question is: why are the disks created in Mac OS 10.2 using Mac OS Standard format rejected immediately by the older Macs? Do I always have to copy the boot disk contents on to an older machine, reformat and then copy the software back on to the disk?
Tristan.
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