Article 29616 of comp.sys.amiga.emulations: Path: news.PEAK.ORG!engr.orst.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!psgrain!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!decwrl!svc.portal.com!portal.com!cup.portal.com!DonH From: DonH@cup.portal.com (Don - Hirschfeld) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: Re: How can a System 7.01 boot disk be make on a 720k floppy? Date: 28 Apr 1995 14:20:05 -0700 Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 44 Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com Message-ID: <137808@cup.portal.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: news1.unix.portal.com In article , fmlazar@ritz.mordor.com (Frank Lazar) writes: >Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote: >: Don - Hirschfeld (DonH@cup.portal.com) wrote: >: : I wanted to try ShapeShifter with my A2000 with 2 720k disk drives. Howeve r, h >: : it possible to make a 720k MAC system disk when even the System folder on the >: : disk tools disk is over 800K! Please tell me what files to put on the MSDO S di >: : boot. > >: Try installing a "Minimal Startup" perhaps? > > Won't work. EVen a minimal startup disk is a bout a meg. Best bet >is to get an Amiga HD floppy. > You can get a minimal startup to fit on a 720k disk - get a diskimage of System 7.0 Disk Tools (800k) and get rid of First Aid and the Portable file in the System folder. This is 714k. The problem I've found is getting ShapeShifter to boot from this - It doesn't work if formatted as a PC floppy and SS won't read Mac format 800k so how do you get it to recognise this as a boot disk? Ken -- ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** Once you have the Disk Tool diskimage on a PC floppy, you copy that to the amiga ShapeShifter directory. When you run SS, you go to the volume option and put the name of diskimage file as a diskfile. If you have a correct ROM image, the program should boot ok. It will appear to have a hard disk with the capacity of 720K. If you create another filedisk of let say 10 megs, you can copy the files over from the 720k disk to that. Shutdown SS, change the first filedisk to the 10 meg filedisk, save, and restart. Now you should a working program and a 10 meg hard disk formatted for MAC. If you can get PC EXCHANGE and put it in the Extension folder, you should be able to transfer most of the other Mac files on PC 730k disks. Files that are too large can be compressed with Compactor Pro (off the net). I was able to transfer all relevent System 7.5 files this way. Don