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Trying (and failing) to create a System 7 boot drive

amstrudy

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I have a Macintosh Color Classic that I just restored and I am attempting to create a System 7 boot drive for it. I have a "3M High Density 2.0 MB" floppy that I am writing an img file to using the dd command on Linux. I either get the error that there is no space left on the disk after a few minutes of whirring, or that the end of the device was reached. That can't be right? I feel like a 2.0 MB floppy is big enough for System 7. Anyways, when trying to insert it into may machine, some painful whirring noises occur and it eventually gets auto-ejected. Any help would be really great! I'm not sure what to do from here except to buy a pre-installed floppy online.
 

amstrudy

Member
I've also tried 1.4 MB disks, with the same issue. I know someone with a Mac SE, but I'm pretty sure it only runs System 6?

 

amstrudy

Member
Regardless, I'm kinda new to this whole world of vintage macs and I'm not really sure how to use another machine to get a System 7 boot drive. 

 

amstrudy

Member
My computer only runs Ubuntu. I tried using wine and WinImage but it didn't work out. When using your .img, I didn't get the error using dd that stated that the disk was out of space, so that's an improvement! My CC still spits out the disk though :/

EDIT: I'm trying to use WinImage on a friend's PC and it only seems to accept .bin files. Even when I feed it a bin file it says that it's in valid. Honestly I have no idea how to use this software lol

 
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Retro Rider

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SHE WORKS! Somehow, WinImage did what dd couldn't. Thanks for all the help!

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Congrats on getting your Color Classic to work, i'm trying to make a system 6/7 boot disk for my SE/30 and have seen the guide posted above ( This ), but I haven't tried it yet, so I wanted to ask you if you just followed the guide, because you said earlier that Winimage only accepted .bin files.

 

amstrudy

Member
Yeah, ignore what I said about the .bin files because I had no idea how to work WinImage. You can just use the NetworkImage file linked above somewhere.

 
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