How to make GS/OS boot disks?

[Skate323k137]

For those who find this later, if you have access to the beige G3 mac or earlier, you can use an emulator to convert a .2mg to a disk copy image. The process is pretty easy.

Download Bernie ][ The Rescue from the macintosh repository to your ppc mac with the 800k capable drive, fire up the emulator, and mount/boot from the included hdd image. 

In the menu for Bernie, create a new 800k disk using your preferred format, I used Disk Copy 4.2. It will show up on the desktop. 

Mount your .2mg disk to the emulator, and copy it to the new disk you made. You can then eject the "disks" and use disk copy to run off a floppy disk.

 

[Retro Rider]

I haven't used Disk Copy in a while to remember the menus, but open up the program and there should be an option to write an image to a disk. It should prompt for the image file and then prompt for a disk to write that image to. After its done, eject the disk and repeat for the next.

The only way I can get the images onto the G3 is by floppies but for some reason it won't take the image from the floppy and put it on the hard drive, but when I try to get it to read the image from the floppy (through disk copy) it glitches and pops out the disk and says to insert it, but each time I do, it just pops out again and I end up having to pull the power.

 

[Retro Rider]

Can anyone send any GS/OS disks?

 

[Dog Cow]

Can anyone send any GS/OS disks?

Yes, I will send you some disks. Email me your address. My email address is below in my signature.

 

[Dog Cow]

I put a bunch of disks for you in the mail this morning.

 

[Retro Rider]

I put a bunch of disks for you in the mail this morning.

I sent the money a little bit ago, thanks in advance again

 

[dcr]

In the menu for Bernie, create a new 800k disk using your preferred format, I used Disk Copy 4.2. It will show up on the desktop.

For whatever it may be worth to those who find this thread later, the Sweet16 Apple IIGS emulator also has this capability.  So for those with later Macs that run Mac OS X 10.6.8 (or later, but don't know if that includes more recent Mac OS X versions since Sweet16 hasn't been updated since 2014), this may be an option.  There are also versions for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.

I hope to try this out firsthand later today; otherwise, I'll do it over the weekend.  I'll report back my results.

 

[dcr]

I hope to try this out firsthand later today; otherwise, I'll do it over the weekend.  I'll report back my results.

It worked but with an extra step.  DiskCopy 4.2 would not recognize the DiskCopy 4.2 disk image created by Sweet16.  I had to change the file and creator types with ResEdit in order for DiskCopy 4.2 to recognize the disk image.  I don't know if the problem is with my setup or the way Sweet16 created the file.  Anyway, after that DiskCopy 4.2 was able to load the image and copy it to a floppy disk.

I have not yet been able to test the floppy disk.

 

[dcr]

I have not yet been able to test the floppy disk.

Tested and worked!

 

[fsmith2003]

For those who find this later, if you have access to the beige G3 mac or earlier, you can use an emulator to convert a .2mg to a disk copy image. The process is pretty easy.

Download Bernie ][ The Rescue from the macintosh repository to your ppc mac with the 800k capable drive, fire up the emulator, and mount/boot from the included hdd image. 

In the menu for Bernie, create a new 800k disk using your preferred format, I used Disk Copy 4.2. It will show up on the desktop. 

Mount your .2mg disk to the emulator, and copy it to the new disk you made. You can then eject the "disks" and use disk copy to run off a floppy disk.

Do you have more detailed instructions on this?  I am using a beige PowerMac G3 with OS 9.2 and Bernie ][ the Rescure will not mount 2mg files at all.  I know the images are good because I can mount them on Sweet16 on a separate OSX computer.

 

[NJRoadfan]

Bernie 2.6 should be able to mount them, although like most programs in classic MacOS, you likely need to add the proper filetype/creator to the files.

 

[fsmith2003]

Bernie 2.6 should be able to mount them, although like most programs in classic MacOS, you likely need to add the proper filetype/creator to the files.

Ihave tried several versions of Bernie.  I have found some files that it will mount but I can figure out what makes them different from the others?  Is there a certain way I should check that the filetypes are all correct?

 

[NJRoadfan]

ResEdit should be able to change the filetype/creator on the files.

http://vintagemacmuseum.com/macintosh-type-and-creator-codes/