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Installing 7.5.x on a Mac SE
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<blockquote data-quote="dhoggan" data-source="post: 1840046" data-attributes="member: 403743"><p>Hi Nick,</p><p></p><p>The SE has a SCSI2SD adapter in pace of the original 20 MB drive. I currently have a 16GB SD card configured as two virtual SCSI devices (a 2GB device 0 and a 12.8GB device 1). SO, definitely GB and not MB.</p><p></p><p>The Superdrive is internal. I've replaced the original 800K one and the three required ICs on the mobo have been replaced. The Superdrive is tested and operational, writing and reading 1.4Mb floppies.</p><p></p><p>To copy the 19-part 7.5.3 install I coped each file (the initial .SMI and the following 18 .part files) one at a time on a 1.4Mb floppy. The G5 has an external floppy drive connected and, again, I'm confident it works as I've transferred other software, such as After Dark, and that works).</p><p></p><p>I have read the article you linked to and unfortunately it does not help. It does include a link to the 19-part archive I have, but then goes on to discuss using dd to copy image files to floppy. These are not image file and so, unless I'm missing something (which is very possible!), I can;t see how to get from the files to disks I can use.</p><p></p><p>As for the current state of 7.5.5. It is a very bare-bones install. It was provided on the web site I linked to in the original post as part of their 'getting started' image. Basically, their image provides just enough files to boot the system, but nothing else. No control panel or anything like that. This is why I either want to add the rest of the v7.5.5 configuration (which I cannot find anywhere), or creat a set of 7.5.3 floppies that I can use to reinstall the OS on to the 2GB drive 0 - so something I can boot into and feed it floppies one after another. </p><p></p><p>Thanks,</p><p></p><p>Dave</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dhoggan, post: 1840046, member: 403743"] Hi Nick, The SE has a SCSI2SD adapter in pace of the original 20 MB drive. I currently have a 16GB SD card configured as two virtual SCSI devices (a 2GB device 0 and a 12.8GB device 1). SO, definitely GB and not MB. The Superdrive is internal. I've replaced the original 800K one and the three required ICs on the mobo have been replaced. The Superdrive is tested and operational, writing and reading 1.4Mb floppies. To copy the 19-part 7.5.3 install I coped each file (the initial .SMI and the following 18 .part files) one at a time on a 1.4Mb floppy. The G5 has an external floppy drive connected and, again, I'm confident it works as I've transferred other software, such as After Dark, and that works). I have read the article you linked to and unfortunately it does not help. It does include a link to the 19-part archive I have, but then goes on to discuss using dd to copy image files to floppy. These are not image file and so, unless I'm missing something (which is very possible!), I can;t see how to get from the files to disks I can use. As for the current state of 7.5.5. It is a very bare-bones install. It was provided on the web site I linked to in the original post as part of their 'getting started' image. Basically, their image provides just enough files to boot the system, but nothing else. No control panel or anything like that. This is why I either want to add the rest of the v7.5.5 configuration (which I cannot find anywhere), or creat a set of 7.5.3 floppies that I can use to reinstall the OS on to the 2GB drive 0 - so something I can boot into and feed it floppies one after another. Thanks, Dave [/QUOTE]
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