Macintosh S/E 30 and System 6 Disks

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Macintosh S/E 30 and System 6 Disks

Hey everyone,

Just recently, I decided to pull my old Macintosh S/E 30 out of my storage room, and start it up. Only to find that I have no idea where my System 6 disks are. I have found on the apple site where they have the images of System 6, but I'm not sure how to burn them onto the floppy disk. In OSX 10.5, I plugged in my USB floppy drive, and I tried by just dragging the uncompressed .sea file onto the disk and apparently that doesn't work.

I read an article on the old macs website, but it didn't help me on actually how to burn it on the disk.

Thank you for your time, and its nice to see that there is a following for vintage macs!

Macbook Pro, Powermac, Macintosh S/E 30, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Oct 16, 2008 12:50 PM

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Niel

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Oct 16, 2008 12:57 PM in response to medicman55

You cannot create a bootable system from an OS version prior to 7 from a Mac OS 8 or newer system in the Finder, and the methods which place the bootable system directly onto the disk don't work in Mac OS X.

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Jan Hedlund

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Oct 16, 2008 6:08 PM in response to medicman55

Hi,

Normally, you would use another older Macintosh computer, with a built-in floppy drive, for the creation of bootable floppies from disk images (the Make A Copy button in Disk Copy 4.2 or the Make a Floppy command in 6.3.3).

If absolutely necessary, some 1.44 MB (not 800K) Mac disk images can be written to diskettes on a PC. This is true for the Network Access Disk 7.5 here and the British System 7.0.1 (except System 7 Tune-Up) here. It should be OK for the 1.4 MB version of System 6.0.8 here, too. If this would be of interest, information about the method can be found (for example) under the How to clean install system 7 on Powerbook 160 topic.

Jan

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Answer 3

Oct 17, 2008 5:38 AM in response to medicman55

B.Wilk55, welcome to Apple Discussions.

Suggest you join LEM-Swap for buying & selling Mac stuff. http://groups.google.com/group/lemswap
After you join, post a WTB (want to buy).

 Cheers, Tom 😉

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Oct 22, 2008 11:02 AM in response to medicman55

B.Wilk55,

May I suggest a user group in your area? Here is their website link:

http://www.macgroup.org/

Their next meeting is in November. Hope that helps soon enough. You can find other old timers who still have original disks and equipment.

Jim

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Answer 5

Jan 12, 2009 9:24 AM in response to medicman55

check out the Apple System Disk 4.0.2 anyone? thread, my reponse, it should lead to SE OS sotware

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DonH49

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Jan 14, 2009 9:28 AM in response to medicman55

I have those os 6 disks.

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adsfushi72

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Apr 3, 2009 10:33 AM in response to medicman55

Hello B.Wilk55. Welcome to the forums!
Do you have any Macs running System 7? If so, I can guide you through the process of creating the System 6 disks from the .sea files.

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Apr 20, 2009 6:00 AM in response to medicman55

Search system 6 or system 7 in the vintage apple section on ebay- you will probably find what you need there.

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