On Jul 9, 2004, at 04:29 pm, Stuart Bell wrote:
On 9 Jul 2004, at 08:18, Mark Benson wrote:
Have you tried just lobbing the enabler on the floppy, rather than putting it all in a folder. I have done this on an LC 475 before but I'm hanged if I can remember how!
Sincere thanks to all who tried to help me.
Congratulations to Mark, who came up with the most counter-intuitive solution, but the one that worked.
I simply copied the 401 System Enabler onto the standard 7.1 Install disc, ignoring the fact that there's no System Folder, and that the System file is at the top level of the directory, and Robert is your aunt's husband.
The jam with this is the disk *IS* the system folder. In essence a legacy Mac will boot from any volume that contains an appropriate 'System' and 'Finder'. The disk is then automatically blessed and the designated location of the System folder becomes whatever the container for the System and Finder files is. It *does not* have to be a folder, as far as I can tell, it is just done that way on most disks in order to keep things tidy, however there is very little space on the 7.1 install floppy and contrary to what most people would have you believe folders do occupy a tin amount of space in the file volume, especially on a Mac as they can have an associated resource fork.
There I go waffling again. If any of that is utter hogwash just send me a notional slap around the ear by e-mail and I'll be sure to mend my ways...
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