ugo gagne wrote: > > Hello everyone > > i just go myself a brand new second hand Mac Classic. > Now, i've never used these before and i ask myself many questions but first: > how do i get it to boot! I get the floppy-with-a-question-mark icon. > > I figured i would need a boot dick of some sort, so i got the system 6.0.8 > disk off of apple via download, and since i dont have a floppy on my every > day Mac, i switched to my pc to make the boot disk (yea i did get something > that can read and make Mac disk -> MacDrive 5).
When using disk images of the apple site, I have had to convert them using DiskCopy on OS X first before I could Rawrite (on the PC) or dd on a linux box. To do this open DiskCopy on OS X and select convert image, then select the apple disk image file and for the output file it defaults to compressed, you need to change it to read/write. The resultant file can be written sector by sector to a 1.44 floppy for booting, copying the files individually doesn't normally work for a boot floppy. If you have any problems I could send you a bootdisk.dmg file that can be rawritten direct. > > Now well equiped, i tried the newly created disk in the Mac Classic's mouth > only to have it rejected and still getting this floppy-with-a-question-mark > icon. > > Can someone be kind enough and help me out? If not i'm afraid i will have to > MacQuariumize the new old mac, and that'd be sad wouldn't it? yes! > > Thanks, > > Ugo > Regards Sean. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
