Macintosh SE and OS 6.0.8

gollum84

gollum84

goonies never say die
At a local Goodwill I was able to pick up a Macintosh SE that has 1 MB of RAM and two 800K floppy drives. I also got an Apple 20SC External SCSI hardrive. I have a SCSI terminator on the drive and I was able to get the 20MB hardrive to appear on the SE's desktop. I have a Mac OS 6 boot disk that lets me run the machine, but now that I have a storage device that works with the SE, I want to install Mac OS 6.0.8 onto the hardrive and have the SE boot from it. I got the 4 disk files from the Apple old software page but they are 824K in size.

Can someone try to help me figure out how to install OS 6 on the hardrive? I can fool the floppy drive into thinking a 1.4 MB floppy is actually a 800K floppy by putting tape over the whole on the upper left of the floppy, but the OS files are 24K too big.
 
I think you'll find that the Disk images for that 6.0.8 install are 824 KB, as you say, but double-click on the that 824 KB DiskCopy file, and you end up with a 770 KB folder, copies to a floppy fine, and should leave it at less than 800 KB, which should still fool the SE (If you can discover a SuperDrive somewhere (the Mac floppy, not the DVD-R or course) The SE will work with HD floppies if you can find a SuperDrive somewhere.

Hints: Just copy the expanded disk contents to each floppy, and make sure that you rename the floppy exactly the same as the folder (for example, Disk 2 of 4 is correctly named 'Utilities 1' - don't copy that utilities 1 folder to the disk, just the contents, and name the floppy Utilities 1, proceeding the same with the other 3.
Should work!!
 
Thank you very much for the info. Using the DiskCopy program really helped to trim off those few extra kilobytes so I could fit OS 6 on the floppies. Now my SE is back up and running. The Apple 20SC drive is noisy, because of the fan, but it's alright, I can live with it. Now I'll try to find some old programs, either online or on eBay, that I can use with OS 6.
 
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