HD size within Basilisk II / 7.5.5
cannyboy opened this issue · 2 comments
I'm thinking of creating a "Reference Machine" on a MacintoshPi-ed Pi 3B. Which has lots of old late-90s reference works like Encarta, World Book, Groliers Encyclopaedia, atlases, and various large educational CD-ROM titles.
To do so, I'd like to put them all on the Pi. Either installed or as mountable images.
But as far as I know, 7.5.5 only allows a maximum of 2GB per HD. So how would I get all the stuff readily available on the MacintoshPi? On a 32GB SD card? Would I have to create new disks somehow?
7.5.5 can view a hard drive that is any size but cannot boot from a disk larger that 4 or 3.5 gigs
Update:
There's probably a lot of ways to do this. I ended up using 'Basilisk II GUI' (macOS) to create a 1GB volume
.
https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10454
Then I copied the created volume
to the SD card's /usr/share/macintoshpi/macos7
folder using scp
.
I added this line near the top of /usr/share/macintoshpi/macos7/macos7.cfg
disk /usr/share/macintoshpi/macos7/1GBHD.dsk
When you start System 7 on the MacintoshPi again, it will ask you to format it. So that's how you add a disk.
But I found out that the macos7.cfg
can mount most disk images (.cdr, .iso, .toast) as either disk
or cdrom
. This is useful, because many of these reference apps require the cd to be mounted. So the top of my config file reads something like this:
rom /usr/share/macintoshpi/macos7/Performa-630.ROM
disk /usr/share/macintoshpi/macos7/hdd.dsk
disk /usr/share/macintoshpi/macos7/games.dsk
disk /usr/share/macintoshpi/macos7/1GBHD.dsk
cdrom /usr/share/macintoshpi/macos7/Encarta95.toast
cdrom /usr/share/macintoshpi/macos7/EyewitnessScience.toast
cdrom /usr/share/macintoshpi/macos7/NewWayThingsWork.toast
cdrom /usr/share/macintoshpi/macos7/TheWayThingsWork.iso