7.0 or 7.1 800k Boot Floppy with AppleShare ?

[smrieck511]

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.

 

[MrFahrenheit]

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.

 

[adespoton]

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.

 

[smrieck511]

yeah there are definitely 800K image files for 7.1 and 7.0 installs. I have them. I thought I remembered something called the "network disk" but no sign of that. Maybe that was a 1.44.

 

[cheesestraws]

The 7.x Network Access disk is a 1.44MB floppy, and it still only just fits.

 

[Phipli]

Keep in mind that 6.0.8 is an update mainly designed to provide sharing compatibility with System 7....

So perhaps the problem is something else.