Seems nobody asked that:
Do you have access to a CD-ROM/CD-R/CD-RW drive with a SCSI interface?
You could then start the computer with a CD-ROM instead of the floppy. A CD image is much easier to make.
I also experienced weird start-up problems when a client insisted on attaching a parallel printer to the Macintosh external SCSI port.
Darren wrote:
A very good point but does just any scsi cdrom boot a vintage mac? I have a few vintage and classic's and none have a cdrom, no real need with a network.
The 7.5 disk tools contents are copied across to the initialized hdd, you can then boot from the hdd. From the second disk you add the cdrom extension to the system folder to access the cd if you can not boot from one naturally.
As there is room on the second floppy, including stuffit lite 3.6 allows you to install a free OS, transfered from the pc in its .bin state or disk copy segmented files, rather useful.
Change the 7.5 DT to 6.0.8 for older macs or to the 8.1, 8.5 tools image for powermacs, pretty much covers lowend and also makes a good minimal system for booting into nix.
I guess a third network floppy could be used to make transfer easier from basilisk on the pc but not every vintage mac has ethernet or cdrom. Like rawrite I've had no success with the 7.5 network disk image, like rawrite that doesn't mean it wont work.
Why they all can't boot from a rom disk like my beloved classics is beyond me. :) There is something satisfying about networking the classic to basilisk after booting from rom.
Maybe the printer had the wrong OS installed. ;)
I hope Peet has luck with one of the suggestions in this thread, hopefully without waiting on a snail mail floppy.
Cheers
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