Thomas wrote:
Hi All,
This discussion started on another thread, but I thought I'd move it
to a separate topic. How is it possible to boot off of a CD drive
with a Plus or SE/30? I
have tried on an SE/30 and Classic with an old Apple CD drive and they
would not boot off the CD. I have otherwise had good experiences with
using a CD drive with my compacts.
I've never tried booting the Classic from cd, something for the weekend.
The rom is easier and about as productive.
What I did to make the CD was burn a bootable disk image with a
program like TransMac on my PC. The disk image was bootable under
Basilisk. After burning the image, I can only read it after the
computer is booted, but I cannot boot off of the CD. This would be
helpful for installing system software with many floppy images,
without having to find/make/swap floppy disks when the compact being
upgraded doesn't have CD drivers or is not bootable.
A quote from another list:
Nero Burning ROM for Windows can burn any UNCOMPRESSED
HFS Standard Disk Copy image file to CD-R/RW that
is small enough to fit. (I suspect it can burn larger
HFS images to DVD recordable/rewritable as well.)
You don't have to change the filename extention for
Nero now. It natively recognizes both the .nrg and
.iso types and it has an all files option so you can
burn anything as an image, whether it is or not.
You just will get a coaster if you try to burn a
compressed Disk Copy image or something that's not
in a proper image format.
Nero will also burn .hfv files and other Macintosh
emulator disk image files.
This is a question better posed to the macndos or vintage lists.
It requires way too much OT to be answered here. Both are light traffic
lists.
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