From: williams@world.net (Bill Stanford) Subject: Drive Setup. But how? (C) In Info-Mac Digest V13 #140, Al Bloom, replying to Roberto Krause, wrote: >>How can I boot Drive Setup? My Mac (IDE Hard Disk) says always The HD >>must not be active. I boot with s disk, click Drive Setup and he says he >>cant boot Drive Setup from the hard disk. And a 1.44 disk is too little >>to include Sytem AND Drive Setup. The solution? > >Huh? I dunno about the IDE-drive Macs, but the rest of us get Disk Tools >for that sort of thing. Whatever. >[snip] >To rid yourself of the Finder on a boot floppy, first copy Disk Tools >to a new disk. Drag System out of the System Folder. Delete everything >else. Then copy your app to the floppy. > >You do have to play some games to get by without a Finder. [snip] Click on >"boot >blocks" and rename Finder and Startup App to the name of whatever >app you >have on the disk. There are some goofinesses with naming. You may have to get >rid of a special symbol in the app's name. It's easy to tell. If the >floppy won't boot, >rename the app, and change the "boot blocks" entries to match. Just to suppliment Al's handy post, here's what usually works with Norton's Disk Editor. (Sorry for the bandwidth for those for whom this procedure is 2nd nature...despite having rewritten this myself [on the basis of a document from Symantec (?)] I have to get this puppy out every blue moon when I make a new Finderless floppy...and I've never seen it completely spelt out in a FAQ) ------------------------- Creating an Emergency Utility Disk for System 7 1 You'll need the following: ***A formatted, High Density (HD) floppy disk. Name the diskette something appropriate like "Emergency Disk". ***System 7's "Disk Tools" diskette that came with your Macintosh. ***the top copy of the utility you wish to boot from your emergency disk (let's say it's Norton Utils or CP Disk Fix®) ***Norton Utilities itself on your hard disk. If you haven't Norton you'll need a sector editor of some kind that you're comfortable withŠ ;-) 2 Copying the System & System Enabler files from Apple Disk Tools Diskette: ***Insert the "Disk Tools" diskette that came with your System 7 disk set. ***Click open Disk Tools window, click open its System Folder, locate the files "System", and (if it's Sys 7.1) "System Enabler xxx". ('xxx' is a 3 digit number for the Enabler that varies depending upon which model Macintosh you have. If you have an older Mac you won't have this file. But if you have an older Mac you don't need to be doing all this! since your Mac will boot from System 6 emergency floppies. Sys 7.5 incorporates these things, and is much to be prefered.) ***copy the System and (if necessary) System Enabler xxx file/s on to a convenient place on your hard disk. 3 Copying the Utility itself: ***Insert the top copy of your utility program and copy that to the same place on your hard disk. NB: In the case of Norton Utils it must be the copy on the Norton Emergency floppy, which hasn't got color resources and hence is smaller than the verson on your HD. The name should be Norton Utils, not Norton Utilities. In the case of CP Disk Fix®, rename as Disk Fix, in case you can't remember how the ® is typed [opt-r]--for you will have to type the utility name exactly in just a minute--writing it out on a piece of paper is a good idea here. If you're setting up a formatter such as Silverlining 5.6.3 delete the version number, using just the name. And also on that piece of paper, count the number of digets in the name of the utility, including spaces--for Norton Utils it's 12, for Disk Fix it's 8. Whatever the utility, the name when you've finished editing it should be 12 digets or less long! 4 Putting the Utility and System Files on to your Emergency Disk: ***Insert the "Emergency Disk" you made. ***Copy the System file (and if nec. the System Enabler xxx file), and Norton Utils or Disk Fix from that convenient place on your hard disk on to the "Emergency Disk". 5 Seting Up the Emergency Disk: This is the technical bit: but it's not too bad really: ***On the piece of paper with the name and number of digets in the name of your utility, convert the number of digets into the hexadecimal number system as follows (all 0's are zeros): 1 = 01, 2 = 02, 3 = 03, 4 = 04, 5 = 05, 6 = 06, 7 = 07, 8 = 08, 9 = 09, 10 = 0A, 11 = 0B, 12 = 0C Thus Norton Utils with 12 digets would be written 0C, which is twelve in hex., (hex has 15 digets, with A through F making up the ones after nine); and Disk Fix with 8 would be written 08. ***Run your hard disk copy of Norton Utilities... ***When you see the Norton Utilities main dialog, pull down the UTILITIES menu, and release on Norton Disk Editor. ***At the "Choose a volume to explore" dialog, select your "Emergency Disk", and click Open. ***When the Directory window opens, select "Boot Blocks" from the OBJECTS menu. ***Click on the 5th field, "Finder Name". The name Finder should now be selected. ***Hold down COMMAND (the "Apple") key and tap 'J'. This takes you to the editing window. The characters '06' will now be highlighted within the main body of the window (06 is hexadecimal for the number of digets in the name Finder!) In the upper right hand corner of the window, you'll see the word "Offset" in bold. It should read 26. ***Now edit that underlined byte: type 0C if it's Norton Utils or 08 if it's Disk Fix ('0' represents the number zero)--being the number of digets in the name of your utility in hex; and if you look to the right of the main window you'll see the underline cursor set under the F of the word Finder. Hit the TAB key to select the F, then type the exact name of the utility you've put on the disk, in this case "Norton Utils" or "Disk Fix". (Don't type the " here!) Don't worry if the letters wrap to the next line. ***Type command-J again. The Finder Name should now read Norton Utils or Disk Fix. (If not, type Command-J again, and try again. Be sure you've hit 0C or 08 then TAB and are typing into the alpha-numerical column, not the hexadecimal main area!) ***If the name is correct, quit the Norton Utilities and click Save when asked. ***Write protect your Emergency Disk, and label it appropriately. Finished! ------------------------- >There is a hidden lesson here, my children. Just because a program is >old doesn't mean it won't work in the brave new world of PowerMacs and >System 7.5.1 (et seq?). CPS's old DiskEdit and FileEdit are two of my >most-used toys. Al makes me very nostalgic here, and he's right, DiskEdit is a heck of a little program, definitely preferable to CPS/Symantec's current things. Hey, anyone out there still using Fedit Plus (breaks under 7.5, unfortunately). >It used to be that you could copy an app to a System-only floppy and call >the app Finder. I haven't had any luck with that dodge for years. No, I >don't know why. It *should* work. I think. Maybe not. I get confused so >easily these days. The good old Mac days, definitely. Al, you're not confused, it doesn't even work at 3AM in the quiet of the night... ;-) Hence those monster instructions above (sorry folk!) --Bill -------