Phipli
Well-known member
Someone on Macintosh Garden was surprised when I mentioned that you could boot a Mac with just a System File and an Application, so I made a quick video showing the simplest (crudest) way of doing it.
There are several better ways, including my preference, using the Norton "Startup Disk Builder" tool, which lets you use much newer System files (I've used it with 7.5.3, but I think it will do 8, if not 9). The Norton tool strips out loads of nonsense to make the System file fit on a floppy disk and also produces a disk that when you quit the program, shuts down instead of relaunching the program.
Here is the rough around the edges way :
There are several better ways, including my preference, using the Norton "Startup Disk Builder" tool, which lets you use much newer System files (I've used it with 7.5.3, but I think it will do 8, if not 9). The Norton tool strips out loads of nonsense to make the System file fit on a floppy disk and also produces a disk that when you quit the program, shuts down instead of relaunching the program.
Here is the rough around the edges way :