Well progress has stalled because opening the Network control panel on even a Minimal Install of 7.5.3 freezes the computer.
I'll have to wait until I get my SE/30 logic boards back.
I am convinced there is a way to do it, but it won't be exactly "easy". It doesn't help that the devs of the System back then are gone for good, and any innate knowledge required to make such a thing is going to be as dust in the wind. I still have no idea why they didn't build two disks, a 7.5.3 PPC and a 7.5.3 68K. I mean 7.5 works for all the 68Ks, but so does System 6, and System 6 is WAY better in such an application. But nearly all the PPCs require 7.5.3+, so 7.5 is pointless. Unless, of course, you have an '040, as '040s don't run System 6.
The way I'll try it out next time is with the SE/30, installing onto a RAM disk a Minimal Install for this Mac. The fun part lies in figuring out what exact extensions are needed, and compressing them. LZWRes can do that, but as resources. We don't have the know-how to integrate extensions into the System itself, then compress them. With resource compression, the compressed data is stored on disk, but decompressed into memory and retained there, perfect for such FDs.
I'll have to wait until I get my SE/30 logic boards back.
I am convinced there is a way to do it, but it won't be exactly "easy". It doesn't help that the devs of the System back then are gone for good, and any innate knowledge required to make such a thing is going to be as dust in the wind. I still have no idea why they didn't build two disks, a 7.5.3 PPC and a 7.5.3 68K. I mean 7.5 works for all the 68Ks, but so does System 6, and System 6 is WAY better in such an application. But nearly all the PPCs require 7.5.3+, so 7.5 is pointless. Unless, of course, you have an '040, as '040s don't run System 6.
The way I'll try it out next time is with the SE/30, installing onto a RAM disk a Minimal Install for this Mac. The fun part lies in figuring out what exact extensions are needed, and compressing them. LZWRes can do that, but as resources. We don't have the know-how to integrate extensions into the System itself, then compress them. With resource compression, the compressed data is stored on disk, but decompressed into memory and retained there, perfect for such FDs.