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I'm having an old Macintosh SE FDHD and a bunch of empty 1,5 mb floppy drives.
I want to put system 6 on it to make the macintosh work, but I don;t know how.
Is there anyone who know how to do this, using a OSX 10.8 macbook?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
You will need an intermediate Mac capable of running a Classic Self-Extracting Archive from Apple's download site, and then you'll need a USB floppy drive for your Macbook to write it out:
http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/SSW_6.0.8-1.4MB_Disk1of2.sea.bin
Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/SSW_6.0.8-1.4MB_Disk2of2.sea.bin
If you don't want to go through this yourself, system disks are offered for sale here (not my site):
The article below contains information about how to create 1.44 MB Mac boot floppies under Mac OS X. Without having tested this procedure at all, I cannot say whether recent system versions would work or not.
http://lowendmac.com/brierley/08pb/classic-mac-boot-floppy.html
Otherwise, the easiest way would probably be to locate another older (pre-1998) Mac with a built-in floppy drive for 1.44 MB (and possibly with a direct Internet connection). JustSomeGuy provided you with links to two 6.0.8 (1.44 MB) downloads. A utility called StuffIt Expander can be used to decode downloaded MacBinary (.bin) files on the Mac in question. After decoding and decompression, one can create sector-copied floppies from the resulting disk images via (the Make A Copy button in) Disk Copy 4.2.
If it is absolutely impossible to locate another older Mac, one could even use a Windows PC with a floppy drive (an appropriate version of Aladdin/StuffIt Expander for Windows, and a disk-image utility like WinImage, would be needed in order to make sector-copied 1.44 MB floppies).
Jan
Is your SE a FDHD/Superdrive model? If not, you are going to need another Mac with a built-in floppy drive to make 800k boot disks, as standard USB floppy drives/PC floppy drives do not have the capability of writing 800k images.
how to put system 6 on a floppy
