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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1840043" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>Hello Dave...definitely an interesting project you have there. I've been doing the "Mac thing" for quite some time...and have probably done something similar to what you're trying to do now...but when I dit it...it was a long time ago. Lol</p><p></p><p><u>Some questions to help understand things & your setup:</u></p><p><u></u></p><p>1. Can you clarify what hard storage device you're working with please? You mentioned having a 2 gig device for the OS...and a 12+ gig device for data. Is this an actual physical hard drive(s)...or "virtual"/something else. Also...do you really mean to use the term "gigabyte"? Nothing back in the Mac SE days was gigabyte...more like "megabyte"...and even megabytes wasn't used that much...since a decent sized HD back then was 20 megabyte. Lol</p><p></p><p>2. Is the Superdrive you have an internal floppy drive for the Mac SE...or an external floppy drive?</p><p></p><p>3. As far as the disk images & converting to floppies. You said you copied the disk images from the iMac G5 to the Mac SE. How exactly was this done...please include as much detal as possible.</p><p></p><p>4. As far as opening the OS 7.5.3 images on the Mac SE...one thing to keep in mind...the Mac OS way back around 1995 was not nearly as "flexible" as the MacOS is today. This is just a guess since it's been so long...but trying to mount an OS 7.5.3 disk image on a Mac SE desktop running OS 7.5.5.</p><p></p><p>Anyways...rather than recreate the wheel..here's a pretty good article on how to make Classic Mac boot floppies (hopefully it helps...or at least suggests some options not previously considered):</p><p></p><p><a href="https://lowendmac.com/2008/creating-classic-mac-boot-floppies-in-os-x/" target="_blank">Creating Classic Mac Boot Floppies in OS X | Low End Mac</a></p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1840043, member: 56379"] Hello Dave...definitely an interesting project you have there. I've been doing the "Mac thing" for quite some time...and have probably done something similar to what you're trying to do now...but when I dit it...it was a long time ago. Lol [U]Some questions to help understand things & your setup: [/U] 1. Can you clarify what hard storage device you're working with please? You mentioned having a 2 gig device for the OS...and a 12+ gig device for data. Is this an actual physical hard drive(s)...or "virtual"/something else. Also...do you really mean to use the term "gigabyte"? Nothing back in the Mac SE days was gigabyte...more like "megabyte"...and even megabytes wasn't used that much...since a decent sized HD back then was 20 megabyte. Lol 2. Is the Superdrive you have an internal floppy drive for the Mac SE...or an external floppy drive? 3. As far as the disk images & converting to floppies. You said you copied the disk images from the iMac G5 to the Mac SE. How exactly was this done...please include as much detal as possible. 4. As far as opening the OS 7.5.3 images on the Mac SE...one thing to keep in mind...the Mac OS way back around 1995 was not nearly as "flexible" as the MacOS is today. This is just a guess since it's been so long...but trying to mount an OS 7.5.3 disk image on a Mac SE desktop running OS 7.5.5. Anyways...rather than recreate the wheel..here's a pretty good article on how to make Classic Mac boot floppies (hopefully it helps...or at least suggests some options not previously considered): [url=https://lowendmac.com/2008/creating-classic-mac-boot-floppies-in-os-x/]Creating Classic Mac Boot Floppies in OS X | Low End Mac[/url] - Nick [/QUOTE]
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