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7.0 or 7.1 800k Boot Floppy with AppleShare ?

Yes, I should probably just get a multi device SCSI cable to transfer these files (and I will if I have to) BUT......

I'm networking my SE(800k) currently running 6.0.8 to My SE/30 running 7.1...(appleshare via printer port). That's fine.

Except all the disk errors I'm getting when transferring larger (relative term) files.

The SE/30 has a BlueSCSI but the SE has a real Quantum HD.

In my mind, the disk errors are caused by one of three things, probably in this order:

- Quantum Drive misbehaving ?
- Unreliable printer cable ?
- Some Appleshare incompatibility between system 6.0.8 and 7.1 ?

So I would love to find a System 7 or 7.1 800k Boot Floppy with Appleshare on it. (Like the 6.0.8 "Utilities 1" floppy).

Does such a thing exist? It's not in the regular system installer floppies as far as I can tell. This might be too much to ask for with 800k.

Yes, I could install the entire System 7 on the SE but its time consuming and I'd want to revert to system 6 after anyway so a network floppy would be easier. Especially since I'm not really convinced it's a system 6 to 7 incompatibility anyway. Just want to check.
 
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No. System 7 requires more than 1MB of drive space just for the Finder and System files. An 800KB book disk does not exist, nor could it be possible to make one.
 
No. System 7 requires more than 1MB of drive space just for the Finder and System files. An 800KB book disk does not exist, nor could it be possible to make one.
I used to have a set of 800k System 7 disks for the Mac Plus that included a bootable Utilities disk. However, it didn't include Appleshare because the Finder and System files had been stripped back to just enough to boot the device and run the utilities.

I do seem to recall a network boot disk that was 800K though? It might have been running System 6, but it would boot a Mac Plus, pull down a shared System 7 network image and boot a 1.4MB RAM disk.
 
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