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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Boot CD for a Performa 600 | Posted by: peafour on 2016-11-03 22:44:37
Hi all,
I'm having a devil of a time creating a boot disk to get 7.1 installed on a Performa 600. Everything I've tried hasn't worked, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I don't want to burn through any more CDs doing things the wrong kind of incorrect, so I'm throwing myself on the mercy of the group.
So far, I've tried making 2 CDs, one just kind of jerking around with OS X 10.4.11 and the Burn Disc command, and the other following these instructions, in the "Burning HFS CD-ROMs" section: http://lowendmac.com/2007/making-floppies-and-cds-for-older-macs-using-modern-macs-windows-and-linux-pcs/
I also have a USB 1.44 floppy drive, but for the life of me I can't make a proper restore image through Disk Utility. Every time I format a disk, it ends up chewing through about 300k of space, making it just too small to use. It's been a long time since I've dealt with floppies, so I'm assuming I'm missing something extremely stupid and basic, but I'm all out of ideas.
The Performa chimes and boots to a flashing question mark disk, and that's as far as I can get.
Thanks in advance.
| Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2016-11-04 03:47:33
Hi peafour,
System 7.1 is great until you have to boot it for the first time. I would burn yourself a System 7.5.3 boot CD. All of the disk images are available on the Macintosh Garden. This software is/was freely available from Apple (née Computer) Inc.
This should boot it with no difficulty. Once you have it booted, you can then make proper install floppies on your P600.
I hope that that helps,
aa
| Posted by: peafour on 2016-11-04 07:34:39
Hi peafour,
System 7.1 is great until you have to boot it for the first time. I would burn yourself a System 7.5.3 boot CD. All of the disk images are available on the Macintosh Garden. This software is/was freely available from Apple (née Computer) Inc.
This should boot it with no difficulty. Once you have it booted, you can then make proper install floppies on your P600.
I hope that that helps,
aa This is the kind of high quality advice I've come to expect from this site, thanks!
I downloaded a file called MacOS753.cdr. It seems like I should be able to just burn that to a CD in Disk Utility on 10.4.11 and that should work, hopefully.
| Posted by: Macdrone on 2016-11-05 13:13:10
make sure in burn you make the disc bootable, its an option in toast, not sure about is 10.4, its been a while.
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