Blank Image Disk for Powerbook 1400

[Jungleboy]

Hello to all,

I have the following problem:

I need a pre-formatted image file for my Powerbook 1400.

I want to use an SD card in the Powerbook, with a storage volume of 64 gigabytes. For this I need an image file with 60 gigabyte size, on which I can install MacOS 8.6 in Sheepshaver. Then I would write the image file to the SD card with balenaEtcher.

I have already tried to create such an image file with dd. Unfortunately I was unsuccessful. The file is only recognised as a 1GB volume, although the image file was larger.

On Macintoshrepository you can find ready-made image files. Unfortunately none with 60GB and HFS+.

Blank hard drive disk images (100MB HFS up to 30GB HFS+) - Macintosh Repository

All these download files consist of extremely compressed empty disk images for emulators (such as SheepShaver or Basilisk II) that are to be used as...

www.macintoshrepository.org

I would really appreciate it if someone could help me out. By the way, I use Windows 10.

 

[Phipli]

Can't you do it in sheepshaver?

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[Jungleboy]

Can't you do it in sheepshaver?

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Sheepshaver didnt allow to create more than 4gb blank hard disk file.

 

[Phipli]

Just a thought, if I was in your shoes, I'd write the 4GB image to the card including an OS and FWB Hard Disk Toolkit, and then I would use FWB Hard Disk Toolkit to add a second partition to the disk while booted in the 1400. This would give me two bootable partitions for two different OSes

Not what you asked for, but something you can easily do yourself.

 

[MrFahrenheit]

Have you tried Disk Jockey ?

Edit: I misunderstood. I thought you were using a drive emulator.

Why don’t you just download one of the OS install CD ISO images for the OS version you want to use, burn it, boot from it, launch Drive Setup, and format and partition your drive like how it was done back in the 90s? Surely that is pretty simple and would work?

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

I can echo what MrFahrenheit has said, I put a 64GB SD card in my PowerBook 3400c (which I first tested on my 1400), and it formatted just fine with Apple's drive setup, and the whole single partition was even bootable, which was a surprise, as every source I've read told me anything over 8GB wouldn't boot on an old world Mac. From there I installed System 7.6.1 without any issues.

 

[Phipli]

and the whole single partition was even bootable, which was a surprise, as every source I've read told me anything over 8GB wouldn't boot on an old world Mac.

I can't remember which macs it applies to and have a feeling it might be a Beige G3 and some other machine issue, rather than universal, but... it isn't that the partition must be all in the first 8GB, its that the /System Folder/ must be in the first 8GB.

This means if you install on a 16GB partition, it boots fine until you load in 8GB of cat pictures and then install new system components past the 8GB limit. The agony is that this results in a buggy OS months or years (or hours if you really like cat pictures) after you made the error, with no obvious change between when it worked and when it didn't.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Ah, interesting clarification. The current setup on that SD card is 5 partitions, 4 3GB partitions for 4 different Mac OS versions (7.6.1, 8.1, 8.5 and 9.1) then the rest is the data partition for software and documents. I did this because it was the most convenient way to have the files all in one place, not because of any stability issue, but I suppose I shouldn't run into this problem then.

 

[Phipli]

Ah, interesting clarification. The current setup on that SD card is 5 partitions, 4 3GB partitions for 4 different Mac OS versions (7.6.1, 8.1, 8.5 and 9.1) then the rest is the data partition for software and documents. I did this because it was the most convenient way to have the files all in one place, not because of any stability issue, but I suppose I shouldn't run into this problem then.

Yeah, if you can boot off your 4th partition it doesn't apply to your machine. I'm fairly sure it included some G3 laptops, but this is all second hand info. I haven't sat down and checked. You know how it is. Half remembered things from MacWorld in 1998

Someone hopefully has a better memory than me.

It doesn't apply to my Pismo. That happily boots from 64GB into a disk.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

May have tried to boot the data partition once? Don’t remember. No system folder is on it now.
Which models are affected sounds like a page for my website (or the wiki, or both).

 

[Jungleboy]

Okay, I will go that way: I will burn a CD with OS 8.5 and then have the SD card formatted. Thank you very much for the support.

If anyone is still looking for large image files. Macintosh Garden now also has a 64GB image file for download: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/disk-images-emulators

Thanks for your ideas.

 

[MacUp72]

I downloaded this cd image for my 1400c..it also contains an original restore hard disk image.

Mac OS 8.0 & 8.1 - Macintosh Garden

This is Mac OS 8.0. It was first available to have Platinum theme, a PowerPC native, multi-threaded Finder, greater customization of the user interface, performance improvements, and many more. Mac OS 8.0 Mac OS 8.0 CD-ROM scan toc_collapse=0; Table of Contents Mac OS 8.0

macintoshgarden.org

 

[Snial]

I used a Raspberry PI to DD the original 750MB HD to its internal HD, then DD back onto an 8GB SD Card. Then I duplicated the main 750MB partition using a little utility I wrote (see thread further down in this forum) to give myself 5 x 750MB partitions which are now: Mac OS 7.5.3 (the original one), Mac OS 8.1, and 3x HFS+ partitions.