Installation from floppy images problem

[beachycove]

I've been trying to install software on a floppy-less machine from floppy images. Sometimes all you need to do is mount all the images on the desktop and run the installer, but some of those installers go to a blank screen, begin to install from floppy 1, and then ask for the next floppy...which can't be supplied because the installer won't let you access the desktop or the next disk image. So the installation aborts.

I used to have a workaround for this, but I seem to have forgotten. Can anyone remind me?

For reference, I've been attempting to install Claris Draw (six disk images) in OS9.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Do the install image files and installer all need to be "installed" in the same folder for that trick to work?

 

[Scott Baret]

Did you mount them all at once?

I seem to remember the Apple installer goes off a single drive though. I could verify this on a physical machine sometime since I do have an external 800K drive in my closet.

 

[beachycove]

Do the install image files and installer all need to be "installed" in the same folder for that trick to work?

I tried that, and have a vague recollection that some such thing might work, but neither putting all components in the same folder, nor making folders from the disks (same names) did the trick. 

It is an easy fix, I am sure. I used to do this on beige machines because it was so much faster, but I can't for the life of me remember how it's done.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Ditto. :-/

 

[Johnnya101]

Well as said, you've got to put them all in the same folder, and I think they are supposed to change to a Floppy disk icon.

 

[just.in.time]

If it is a multi-part floppy image (like OS 7.5.3 15 part or 19 part or whatever it was), then all in the same folder and start with 1 and it should auto pilot from there.

Non-multipart you have to mount all the images first.  That's how I normally do non-multipart image installs (usually, the image files are located on a Zip disk in my case).

I've had one instance where a disk in the series wasn't being recognized.  Created the actual physical disk set from my images, and it didn't work that way so I think there was something wrong with the image itself.  Otherwise, it has worked every time I've ever needed it to.