Boot Floppy or other boot solution

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panabix

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Apr 19, 2022
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Dear tinkerers,

I have a Powerbook 170 in good condition that has some boot issues.
It used to boot from the internal scsi hard drive, but that has since stopped working. I would like to create a Boot floppy for the powerbook. I have a usb floppy drive that reads 1.44mb disks, and a macintosh plus with working 800k disk drive. Does any of you know how I can resurrect my powerbook with these? Thanks in advance,
Panabix.
 

Kai Robinson

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Well, the easiest thing to do, would be to get hold of a System 7 ulity disk image, and then you can write the image to the floppy directly - do you have any other macs other then the plus?
 
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