A/UX - on a real hard disk

[VMSZealot]

I have a Quadra 650, with A/UX and a failing hard drive. I have a new hard drive ready to go, but I really can't be faffed with reinstalling A/UX from scratch and then adding all the patches - and particularly not when someone has done the work already (here: https://github.com/unxmaal/aux_sdcard)

My question is, does anyone know whether it's possible to use Disk Utility (MacOS 10.4, Blue and White G3 with a SCSI card) to write this image to a real disk and then have it work? Or is it a case of 'just give it a go'? I'm curious to know if anyone has tried this before and whether it should, in theory at least, work…

And, on that topic, does anyone know if there are preinstalled images of other versions of MacOS - in the interests of doing the least work possible (it's shocking, isn't it!?), I'd like to have pre-installed images for:

System 6.0.8
MacOS 7.6
MacOS 8.1
MacOS 8.6

They'd be handy to squirrel away on my server, against the day when nothing works and I need to reinstall!

 

[LaPorta]

I'd venture that you would have the greatest possible luck with 10.4. That is the last OS version that I know of that will do things like image whole early Mac file systems and structures (do things like install OS 9 HD drivers and the like). If not, you could always attempt to use earlier versions of something like Carbon Copy Cloner:

Carbon Copy Cloner - Macintosh Garden

Probably the best and most reliable backup app ever, and a very useful tool in system / drive repair. Download 1 — Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.7f October 2015, the last Universal Binary version for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger & 10.5 Leopard PPC. Requires OS X 10.4 or 10.5, too - this one doesn't run in 10.6...

macintoshgarden.org

to get the full, bit-by-bit copy. Give it a go!

 

[avadondragon]

If you follow the 'Deploying the image (using dd)' instructions at https://github.com/unxmaal/aux_sdcard on your 10.4 machine I'm pretty sure it should work just fine.