[Mac Plus, RASCSI] How do I boot the OS from a virtual hard drive on RASCSI without a working Mac?

[vorg]

[I hope this is the correct sub forum]

Hi all,

If you've seen my posts, you'll know I have a Mac Plus 1mb I'd like to get working. The floppy drive seems busted. In the meantime, I got a RASCSI in hopes of running the OS off of it.

Unfortunately every guide I've found to boot from it require you start with a working floppy drive and copying the system disk to the RASCI virtual hard drive.

Is there a way to just load a virtual hard drive with a working OS already on it without having to create the image myself?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[wottle]

You should just download a pre-made image (like the 6.0.8 boot disk found here: (Edit - removed my link - see @eric 's official location below. )

Upload that to your RaSCSI (after unzipping it), mount it, and when you boot you Mac Plus with the 6.0.8 40MB drive mounted and attached, it should boot from SCSI.

 

[eric]

Oh my - please do not download from the repository - I do not update those, not sure who put them there but not me.

The actual place where I maintain them: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/rascsi-reloaded

 

[vorg]

Thank you, both! Trying it now.

 

[vorg]

Eric and Wottle; thanks a million!

 

[wottle]

Oh my - please do not download from the repository - I do not update those, not sure who put them there but not me.

The actual place where I maintain them: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/rascsi-reloaded

Sorry, I thought that was the official place - it came up first on the search I made...

 

[eric]

Sorry, I thought that was the official place - it came up first on the search I made...

No worries. The garden isn't listed on Google so it happens. General rule of thumb is visit the garden first!