Part II
Network the Classic and the laptop over Ethernet or Appletalk. Have a small OS booting the laptop, and collect the appropriate software, on both sides, to bridge the laptop's plethora of devices to the classic (PCMCIA, USB, WiFI, DVD-ROM, &c) Use remote desktop software to control the Powerbook from the classic.
NB if you're using a really old Mac, with 1.5MB-5MB/s SCSI, and you've already managed to give it Ethernet, a network-mounted disk might actually be faster. You'd still need an internal boot drive, but that could well be a Disk Tools floppy.
Part IIa
Insert a shim to redirect network calls over the SCSI port, on both machines. In other words, have them both think they are using SCSI-Ethernet adapters, only they're not - they're connected direct to each other via SCSI. Then your classic doesn't even need Ethernet hardware - it can use whatever the Powerbook can serve up.
Part III (only for mad scientists)
Replace the ROM / ROM file with a new improved one that bridges onboard devices over SCSI in firmware. All the hardware is present: nothing needs to be built, it just needs reprogramming (and maybe a larger ROM chip) While you're in there, fix the >4GB bug
Either way, it would take a real DriverGuru *AHEM* to pull it off [
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Network the Classic and the laptop over Ethernet or Appletalk. Have a small OS booting the laptop, and collect the appropriate software, on both sides, to bridge the laptop's plethora of devices to the classic (PCMCIA, USB, WiFI, DVD-ROM, &c) Use remote desktop software to control the Powerbook from the classic.
NB if you're using a really old Mac, with 1.5MB-5MB/s SCSI, and you've already managed to give it Ethernet, a network-mounted disk might actually be faster. You'd still need an internal boot drive, but that could well be a Disk Tools floppy.
Part IIa
Insert a shim to redirect network calls over the SCSI port, on both machines. In other words, have them both think they are using SCSI-Ethernet adapters, only they're not - they're connected direct to each other via SCSI. Then your classic doesn't even need Ethernet hardware - it can use whatever the Powerbook can serve up.
Part III (only for mad scientists)
Replace the ROM / ROM file with a new improved one that bridges onboard devices over SCSI in firmware. All the hardware is present: nothing needs to be built, it just needs reprogramming (and maybe a larger ROM chip) While you're in there, fix the >4GB bug
Either way, it would take a real DriverGuru *AHEM* to pull it off [
] ]'>