Recent content by rmachin

Success! The classic hadn;t been used for years, so I left it plugged in for a few hours and it then booted from the ROM. Copied the image, stuck the disk in the 512K and -- after removing the reset plug that was jammed too far into teh side -- it booted :b&w: Many thanks for the help...

All was going great. I formatted an HD disk on teh macbook 800K and copied the .image file to it. Then I covered the HD hole on another HD disk and formatted that 400K on the classic, booted from the ROM. Then I booted the classic normally, and copied the .image file from teh 800K disk into a...

2 meg. Following you advice I started the thing up with ctro-cmd-x-o and booted it from ROM into version 6, then diskcopy would start OK! Loads the 3.2 image fine. Stupidly using an HD disk -- just going to grab a DD disk and try again...

Hmph. Not enough memory to run disk copy 4.2 on the Classic, apparently...I wonder why it's in Apple's interest to not just put the old tools and os's up somewhere for unsupported download...

Right! Off to the mac store and I'll report back... Thanks for the input -- I'm a recent mac convert so working back from macbook/OS X to the 512k... -- Richard.

Ah but the .sit file is on my macbook. Unless I get very creastive with netorking, not sure how to get that on to a floppy via the classic...

I have the follwing bits and pieces -- can anyone think of a way to get my 512k booted? working 512k with no boot diskette .sit image of system 3.2 blank 800k floppy Mac Classic (boots from ROM fine into system 7.1) PC/Windows XP Macbook Pro/Tiger Now you'd think with all that technology I'd...