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This was back when people still used 1.44M floppies to boot in an emergency.
by pavlov 1y ago
This was back when people still used 1.44M floppies to boot in an emergency.
- duskwuff 1y agoNot on a G3. These systems shipped with Mac OS 8; the System suitcase was over 6 MB alone. Apple stopped shipping systems with internal floppy drives altogether a few years later, with the iMac and blue-and-white G3.
- classichasclass 1y agoYou could absolutely boot a stripped-down Mac OS 8 on a floppy, including the beige G3. Apple even provided them ("Disk Tools").
- kalleboo 1y agoApple even still hosts a download of the Disk Tools floppy for MacOS 8.1! https://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Mac_OS_8.1_Update/Disk_Tools_PPC.img.bin https://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Sof...
- elliotnunn 1y agoFascinatingly, the System file on the Disk Tools 8.1 floppy is actually a build of System 7, with HFS+ support grafted on. https://github.com/elliotnunn/HFSPlusBackport/blob/master/resreport.txt https://github.com/elliotnunn/HFSPlusBackport/blob/master/re...
- dylan604 1y agodidn't OS 8 come on a CD? I installed it from disc in my DVD drive. not sure how old you think the G3 is, but it's not as old as installing from floppy. just barely