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| 7.0 or 7.1 800k Boot Floppy with AppleShare ? |
Posted by: smrieck511 on 2026-07-17 12:50:22
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. |
Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2026-07-17 13:43:01
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. |
Posted by: adespoton on 2026-07-17 14:06:49
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. |
Posted by: smrieck511 on 2026-07-17 15:21:17
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. |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2026-07-17 15:24:47
The 7.x Network Access disk is a 1.44MB floppy, and it still only just fits. |
Posted by: Phipli on 2026-07-17 15:47:41
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. |
Posted by: PappaDF on 2026-07-17 16:13:06
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. There are indeed 800K floppy installation disks for System 7, but if I remember correctly, the 800K version of the installation disks does not actually boot into System 7 itself from floppy because of the size limitations. Instead, the disks boot into System 6.0.7, from which System 7 then is installed to hd. |
Posted by: smrieck511 on 2026-07-17 18:39:37
There are indeed 800K floppy installation disks for System 7, but if I remember correctly, the 800K version of the installation disks does not actually boot into System 7 itself from floppy because of the size limitations. Instead, the disks boot into System 6.0.7, from which System 7 then is installed to hd. that makes sense. I'll install complete system 7.1 and see if anything changes. Thanks. |
Posted by: olePigeon on 2026-07-17 20:50:38
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.
What if you utilized the two floppy drives on the SE and then distributed the required files across two 800K disks using aliases? |
Posted by: mikes-macs on 2026-07-17 22:01:26
Are there aliases with System 7.0? I know there isn't any available with SSW6. |
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