Okay, I'm officially pissed. I thought what I had done was fine but now I appear to have screwed myself so I need some help. Here's what's going on.
I replaced the System drive in my LC475 with an SCSI22SD version 5B and a 32GB SD card. Of course I know I would have to partition the card and since the SCSI2SD card supports 4 separate SCSI IDs, I spread the storage across all 4 IDs of 8GBs each. It took a while but it worked and I had 12 drives on the desktop (ID 0 had four 2GB (approximately) partitions and two 32MB ProDOS partitions for the Apple IIe card; IDs 1 through 3 had two 4GB partitions each). I am running OS 7.5.5.
It worked fine. But then I decided to add SCSI devices, a CD-ROM, external HD and an Asante EN/SC ethernet adapter and that consumed the rest of my SCSI IDs. Okay, I have no plans to add more SCSI devices so I'm good. But then I decide to put in a new SD card and install OS 8.1 and I learn I can have 8GB(?) HFS partitions under this OS. But that means I will waste SCSI IDs if I build the partitions that big. The firmware in the SCSI2SD card holds the SCSI ID assignments so I have to reprogram it if I want to change my setup.
Sooo, I pull the SCSI2SD card out and blow away the other SCSI ID assignments and put the entire SD card under ID 0. I was wondering if Apple's partitioning software would support so many partitions but, as it turns, out it does. I copied my MacHD boot partition to two different locations along with whatever was on the other partitions. I reassign all the storage to ID 0 and made the first partition less than 2GBs in size, built two ProDOS partitions, and added 7 more 4GB partitions.
I restored the first partition successfully but the 7.5.5 system file is a regular file. Also during booting, the Mac reports this is a floppy disk installation and pleas perform a full install. What? That doesn't make sense so since the system file is a plain directory icon, it must be needing a blessing. So I look up how to bless the system file. I move the System suitcase and Finder out of the System folder and back in. No change. I move these two files from the system folder and put them in the root directory by placing them on the MacHD desktop icon and then move them back to the system file, but still no change.
So I wasn't sure if perhaps the boot drive partition is too big (it's 1979845.5K). So I go through a full install of OS 7.5.3 and upgraded to 7.5.5. The system folder has a little mac icon in it so it now boots properly.
So what am I doing wrong? How do I bless my original system folder so it boots like it did before I started screwing around with it? How do I back up my system drive and restore it to proper working order if I have to restore? This part of the Mac OS always confused me.
I still haven't done my OS 8.1 install yet. What do I need to be aware of when I move this OS over to the new partitioning?
Thank you for your time and help,
Gerry
I replaced the System drive in my LC475 with an SCSI22SD version 5B and a 32GB SD card. Of course I know I would have to partition the card and since the SCSI2SD card supports 4 separate SCSI IDs, I spread the storage across all 4 IDs of 8GBs each. It took a while but it worked and I had 12 drives on the desktop (ID 0 had four 2GB (approximately) partitions and two 32MB ProDOS partitions for the Apple IIe card; IDs 1 through 3 had two 4GB partitions each). I am running OS 7.5.5.
It worked fine. But then I decided to add SCSI devices, a CD-ROM, external HD and an Asante EN/SC ethernet adapter and that consumed the rest of my SCSI IDs. Okay, I have no plans to add more SCSI devices so I'm good. But then I decide to put in a new SD card and install OS 8.1 and I learn I can have 8GB(?) HFS partitions under this OS. But that means I will waste SCSI IDs if I build the partitions that big. The firmware in the SCSI2SD card holds the SCSI ID assignments so I have to reprogram it if I want to change my setup.
Sooo, I pull the SCSI2SD card out and blow away the other SCSI ID assignments and put the entire SD card under ID 0. I was wondering if Apple's partitioning software would support so many partitions but, as it turns, out it does. I copied my MacHD boot partition to two different locations along with whatever was on the other partitions. I reassign all the storage to ID 0 and made the first partition less than 2GBs in size, built two ProDOS partitions, and added 7 more 4GB partitions.
I restored the first partition successfully but the 7.5.5 system file is a regular file. Also during booting, the Mac reports this is a floppy disk installation and pleas perform a full install. What? That doesn't make sense so since the system file is a plain directory icon, it must be needing a blessing. So I look up how to bless the system file. I move the System suitcase and Finder out of the System folder and back in. No change. I move these two files from the system folder and put them in the root directory by placing them on the MacHD desktop icon and then move them back to the system file, but still no change.
So I wasn't sure if perhaps the boot drive partition is too big (it's 1979845.5K). So I go through a full install of OS 7.5.3 and upgraded to 7.5.5. The system folder has a little mac icon in it so it now boots properly.
So what am I doing wrong? How do I bless my original system folder so it boots like it did before I started screwing around with it? How do I back up my system drive and restore it to proper working order if I have to restore? This part of the Mac OS always confused me.
I still haven't done my OS 8.1 install yet. What do I need to be aware of when I move this OS over to the new partitioning?
Thank you for your time and help,
Gerry