Making a Boot Disk for Mac Plus

#1 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 - 03:05 68kMLA

I am trying to boot up my Mac Plus.

I get the Flashing Disk Icon.

So, Call me a noob if you like, but I have never done this.

So how do I make a boot disk?

Thanks!

#2 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 - 04:18 68kMLA

Head over here and look up the 800K boot disks for the pkus and you are good to go

http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/

#3 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 - 04:22 68kMLA

See the problem is I don't have a Mac to make the disk on.

#4 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 - 05:21 68kMLA

You have no macs at all? What about the ones you list in your sig?

You will not be able to make a boot disk for a mac plus on a PC - it's simply not possible.

#5 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 - 05:37 68kMLA

none that are on the internet

#6 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 - 05:47 68kMLA

That's different. Those others will all support 1400K disks, so you can transfer the image to one of them, and then copy it onto an 800K disk for the Plus.

#7 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 - 05:49 68kMLA

funkytoad - the reason you can't make a Mac Plus boot disk on a Plus is that PCs can't write to 800KB diskettes. So what you're going to need to do is make a boot disk on a 1.4MB floppy with the PC, then use another one of your Macs to transfer the system software from the 1.4MB floppy to an 800KB one.

Check out the bottom of this page for info regarding making a System 6 boot disk...

http://home.wanadoo.nl/ruud.dingemans/html/system6.html

#8 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 - 02:48 68kMLA

well, I bought Stuffit 3.0 Deluxe for my Macs.

According to it, Gamba's Boot Disk for the Mac Plus is corrupt.

#9 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 - 05:32 68kMLA

Which one? This one is the most obviously labelled and it is fine (I just checked it.) http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/download/SysVII-800k-boot-disks/800kMac-701-miniF/800kMac-701-miniF.bin

But you would be much better off with a System 6 boot disk. They are available from Apple - heaps of them. Do a search - its a legacy software download page or similar.

#10 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 - 06:32 68kMLA

Okay, I will look for more.

My vesion of Stuffit says that file is corrupt.

I don't know why

#11 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 - 08:09 68kMLA

It might be that your version of Stuffit is just too old. Often, the "file is corrupt" error message actually means "the file is fine, but I don't understand it."

#12 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 - 08:36 68kMLA

I used stuffit expander 3 to decode it.

#13 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 - 18:10 68kMLA

Strange. Mine just won't do it

#14 Wed, 5 Sep 2007 - 10:37 68kMLA

I've just made a boot disk for a Mac Plus, but you do needto write the os to aa 800k Double Density floppy disk as I understand the drive in a Mac Plus can't read the later High Density floppy disks.

#15 Wed, 5 Sep 2007 - 17:42 68kMLA

Yes, the Mac Plus has an 800K floppy drive, capable of reading from, and writing to, 400K and 800K disks only. It cannot handle the 1.4MB format, unfortunately, which reduces your options for creating a Plus-compatible boot floppy on other machines. PCs can't do it (it's a hardware limitation), and only older macs can.

#16 Wed, 5 Sep 2007 - 18:03 68kMLA

Use one of your Classic II's. They can read/format 800/400 disks