Hello @mattdy4,
same problem as yours and I solved with... two floppies ;-) !
First I've prepared a boot floppy (System 7.5.x) with RAMDisk+; then I've prepared another floppy containing only Lido.
RAMDisk+ has a specific option to "pivot" between real floppy and ram disk volume as the...
For the hardware part, any usual USB 1.44 MB floppy drive from Amazon should be okay (in my personal experience it has worked).
For the software part, some distinction has to be done: every Mac OS X < 10.6 is able to format/read/write HFS volumes, so your G4 should be okay!
More modern OS...
Hello @fsmith2003, as far as I know, you didn't really remove MacTCP, but it's only hidden. You should now have an application called Network Software Selector to choose between classic networking (aka MacTCP) and Open Transport. It should be on your system volume (root directory or, maybe, in...
Hello guys,
this is a port of Unix/Linux hfsutils package to macOS: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/hfsutils
It promises to work directly on floppies (not yet personally tested).
For those who are unfamiliar with Homebrew, you have prior install it as stated here: https://brew.sh/
RAM Doubler did the trick!
In any case, because the disk is getting worse and worse, I'm thinking about picking a SCSI2SD up. Have you any advice between versions V5, V5.1 and V6?
Thank you: before reinstalling I'll give it a try with RAM Doubler.
In the meantime more and more bad sectors are arising from the SE/30 old hard drive: maybe this is really this issue reason...
Hi everyone!
I'm a very newbie about vintage Macs and I've recently picked up a Macintosh SE/30 with System 7.0.1 in German. I installed System 7.5.3 (then updated to 7.5.5) in English (I don't speak German...) in an new System Folder (clean install without having erased the hard disk).
Now...