![]() ![]() When written to a floppy, these images create exact copies of the master disks.ĭue to physical differences between Mac and PC floppy drives, 800K double density Mac floppies can only be written by other vintage Macs. These floppies are distilled into disk images you can download from the Web. Installing System 6 or System 7.0.1 onto an older Mac is only possible using floppy disks, and the first step to installing System 7.5 is usually “boot from a floppy”. And that’s what we’ll talk about: Free tools for writing Mac floppy disks and HFS CD-ROMs using modern Mac, Windows, and Linux computers. ![]() To get that vintage Mac up-and-running, you need to be able to write downloaded software onto disks that an older Mac can read. Where VOLNAME is the name of the floppy when mounted and is displayed when listing files on it using the DIR command.2007: One of the biggest hassles of the vintage Macintosh hobby is loading software onto your first older Mac. If you want to change this you’ll need to reformat the drive (which will delete all data so back it up first!).įormatting the diskette image from the DOS prompt: \DOS\FORMAT A: /V:VOLNAME Note: the name of the floppy image is the name of the disk volume from when the floppy image was created. When finished just Eject it like any normal removable drive in the Finder. To mount it, open Disk Utilityįile, Open Disk Image, Select the file you created above.Īdd or remove files to/from the floppy disk image using the Finder. This diskette can be formatted in the guest operating system or on your Mac and files can be copied to it and removed from it once it’s mounted. ![]() Appendix B: Creating Floppy Disk Image Files (MacOS) Creating Floppy Disk ImagesĬreate a 1.44MB 3.5” floppy image dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=2880 of=floppy.imgĬreate a 720KB 3.5” floppy image dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1440 of=floppy.img ![]()
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