inanis said:

tanaquil: Glad you liked it. I did not try a SATA/IDE USB device, although I have one and a Bondi Blue iMac that might have worked for this scenario. Didn't try it. Easy enough to try, though. I'll check it out and report back.

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For my Q630 (No CD drive!) I used an Ubuntu Live CD, and a PATA to USB adapter on my PC to partition (with hfsprogs and diskpart) my unused, period-correct 10GB WD Caviar. I then plopped the System 7 installation media on it's own partition from Ubuntu. I booted from the install partition on the Q630, installed the OS from one partition on the drive to another partition on the drive, and in the end I effectively created a nice OEM recovery partition with extra useful goodies like OT 1.3 (basically everything on this page). If you have the patience to figure out Read/Write mounting of HFS volumes in Linux, and don't feel like doing the floppy shuffle, it's a great method.