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Beige IDE Mac Quick Start
Posted by: Phipli on 2022-06-19 05:10:51
@jajan547's recent prototype 6360 thread reminded me that I had an IDE "Quick Start" post sat at draft as I hadn't been able to test at the time. I've updated it as I have a Beige G3 set up at the moment.

Given all beige IDE Macs I can think of (Performa 630 to G3) can boot Mac OS 8.1, I made a disk image that boots this.

The idea is, if you're getting into retro macs and just bought a Performa 630, for example, but have no working drives (CD, floppy or previous hard disk with an OS), you can get started with a cheap IDE to SD card adapter, a 4GB SD card and a modern computer that can write to SD cards.

Figure it is less useful to 68kmla folk as most people here are well set up, but any testing is welcome to iron out any mistakes I've made that will discourage beginners.

The image included installers from 7.1.2 to 8.1 (UK versions sorry, I can make a US version if everything is good) and a few utilities etc.

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IDE to SD Quickstart

IDE to SD Quickstart The following guide is designed to get up and running quickly with a IDE to SD adapter when you don’t have any installed OS on your antique IDE (aka ATA) Macintosh such a…
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Posted by: jajan547 on 2022-06-19 11:16:13
I used your guide and it was very, very well laid out and simple to follow.
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