On Nov 27, 2005, at 18:23, Dr.O.M.Betz wrote:
Am 27.11.2005 um 23:46 Uhr schrieb Brierley, Paul:
Hi folks,
I've recently inherited a Powerbook 500 which has a sickly System
folder, and is in need of a fresh install. It also has a PowerPC 603e
upgrade inside it, so can't take very early versions of System 7.
My question is pretty simple, but I'm hitting my head against a wall.
I have a G5 Power Mac running Panther, and I also have a USB floppy
drive. How on earth do I create a boot floppy (for say 7.5.3 or 8.1 -
I've found disk images courtesy of Gamba) in OS X?
Disk Utility doesn't want to write to my floppies. It will happily
erase them, but refuses to write disk images to them. Disk Copy 6.3.3
has the "Create Floppy" option greyed out (guess it can't see my USB
drive).
Surely there must be a way to do this in OS X?
Please? Anybody?
You're not the first one to get into this dilemma. OS X knows reading
volumes, but it doesn't care for writing to floppies. I don't know
about Classic, this one could be worth a try (although it seems you
ran DiskCopy 6.3.3 under Classic to no avail), but if X doesn't
support floppies, chances are that Classic doesn't either. So your
best bet IMHO is a network install or, if your 500 really is on its
last legs and can't be ethernetted to your G5 AND you happen to have
an external SCSI CD-ROM drive you can connect to the PB 500, burn a CD
on the G5 containing the CD install version of 7.5.3 and throw the
7.5.5 upgrade in while you're at it, or get an 8.0/8.1 install CD
(which should be even easier) and start from there. Or consider using
an intermediate machine, any early PowerPC with a floppy drive should
do the job; maybe it could even take care of the 500 in SCSI disk
mode, if you can get the right cable. If all else fails, get back to
me as I remember some excellent fish and chips I ate in Durham in 1975
and I might be able to prepare a NAD or some other floppies for you
and send them by snailmail...
Can you mount the floppies in OS X? Are those same floppies readable
in System 7? If so, can't you just mount the image in OS X and then
copy the files to the floppy? I'm pretty sure I've done that before,
on versions of OS X running on B&W G3s or Beige G3s.
Daniel
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