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1 nigel 1.1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"><HTML>
2     <HEAD><TITLE>Basilisk II, Mac OS X port, HowTos</TITLE></HEAD>
3     <BODY>
4    
5     <H1> Index </H1>
6    
7     <UL>
8     <LI> <A HREF="#minreq"> Minimum Requirements</A> </LI>
9 nigel 1.5 <LI> <A HREF="#rom"> Macintosh ROM image</A> </LI>
10     <LI> <A HREF="#b-disk"> Finding a boot disk</A> </LI>
11     <LI> <A HREF="#install">Installing the MacOS</A> </LI>
12 nigel 1.1 <LI> <A HREF="#mount"> Mounting Unix Files</A> </LI>
13 nigel 1.4 <LI> <A HREF="#import"> Importing Mac Files</A> </LI>
14 nigel 1.1 </UL>
15    
16     <HR>
17    
18     <H2> <A NAME="minreq"> Minimum Requirements </A> </H2>
19    
20     To run Basilisk II, you need both:
21     <UL>
22     <LI>A Mac ROM image. Even though there is a ROM in your OS X Mac,
23     it is too new for a 68k Mac to make use of. Any Mac II ROM,
24 nigel 1.2 and most of the Quadra ROMS, will work.
25     <BR> (Quadra 660av and 840av ROMs are currently unusable.
26     I don't know about Mac LC ROMs. In the near future, Mac Plus,
27     SE or Classic ROMS may also be usable, though only for emulating
28     a monochrome Mac). </LI>
29 nigel 1.1 <LI>A copy of the MacOS, which at the moment has to either be on
30     a CD-ROM, or on a disk image </LI>
31     </UL>
32    
33     <HR>
34    
35     <H2> <A NAME="rom"> Macintosh ROM image </A> </H2>
36    
37     <P> To run Basilisk II, you need a ROM image, which is a data file
38     containing a copy of the ROM chips from a real 68k Macintosh. </P>
39    
40     <P> The best way (<I>i.e.</I> most legally acceptable) to get a ROM
41     image is to produce it from your old Mac. Take a program like CopyROM,
42     download it onto your old Mac, and use it to produce the image file,
43 nigel 1.3 which you then copy or upload to your OS X Mac.
44     A good page which describes this process is
45     <A HREF="http://mes.emuunlim.com/tips/capturing_a_mac_rom_image.htm">here</A>.
46     </P>
47 nigel 1.1
48     <P> The easiest way to get a ROM image is to get one from someone else
49     (<I>e.g.</I> another Basilisk II user, or an emulation web site).
50     Note that this probably contravenes several copyright laws. </P>
51    
52     <P>Once you have your ROM image, you need to tell Basilisk II to use it:
53     <OL>
54     <LI> Open the Basilisk II application </LI>
55     <LI> Go to the 'BasiliskII' menu, then the Preferences...' menu item </LI>
56     <LI> On the Emulation tab, there is a field 'ROM file:'. Either type in the
57 nigel 1.5 path to the ROM file, or click the Browse button and Open the ROM file </LI>
58 nigel 1.1 <LI> Click the Save button, so that Basilisk II will be able to find the ROM
59 nigel 1.5 each time you boot it </LI>
60 nigel 1.1 </OL>
61     </P>
62    
63 nigel 1.2 <P> If you want to test this, press the Run or Power button
64     (in the top right corner of the 'BasiliskII Emulator' window).
65     After a few moments you should see a Mac screen, with a picture of a floppy
66 nigel 1.1 disk with a flashing question mark. That is the Mac telling you that it needs
67     a disk to boot from. </P>
68    
69     <HR>
70    
71 nigel 1.5 <H2> <A NAME="b-disk"> Finding a boot disk </A> </H2>
72 nigel 1.1
73 nigel 1.2 <P> Basilisk II needs a copy of the MacOS to boot from. Anything from System 7
74     through to MacOS 8.1 should be usable.
75     <BR> (Felix Eng and I have only tested System 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.5.3 and 7.6,
76     although Felix also got System 6.0.8 to work with SE/30 Roms) </P>
77 nigel 1.1
78 nigel 1.5 Basilisk II can currently boot from:
79     <DL>
80     <DT> CD-ROM </DT>
81     <DD> Most (not all) MacOS Install CDs will also boot your Mac. I also think
82     that some old Norton Utilities install CDs might have booted 68k Macs </DD>
83     <DT> Floppy disk image </DT>
84     <DD> Jonathan C. Silverstein reports that
85     <A HREF="http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/Utilities/Network_Access_Disk_7.5.sea.bin">this</A></P> Apple floppy disk image will boot Basilisk II </DD>
86     <DT> Preinstalled Basilisk II disk image </DT>
87     <DD> Another Basilisk II user might be willing to loan you the disk image
88     that they are using </DD>
89     </DL>
90    
91     <P> It is possible to use Basilisk II with a CD-ROM or floppy image, but
92     because most bootable CDs have a minimal System Folder, it is better if you
93     use a disk image with a more complete MacOS installed on it. The next section
94     tells you how to do this. </P>
95    
96     <P> Note that there is currently no Install CD image on Apple's Web site, but
97     they do seem to have MacOS 7.5.3 floppy disk images (all 19 of them). Burning
98     those images onto a CD (not in the extended format) should allow you to install
99 nigel 1.2 <BR>Thanks to Attilio Farina for this tip! </P>
100    
101 nigel 1.5 <H2> <A NAME="install"> Installing the MacOS </A> </H2>
102 nigel 1.1
103     <H3> Create a new BasiliskII disk </H3>
104    
105     <P> Before you can install the MacOS onto a disk volume,
106     you need to create a disk to install onto: </P>
107    
108     <OL>
109 nigel 1.2 <LI> Start up the Basilisk application.<BR>
110 nigel 1.1 (If it is already running, skip this step)</LI>
111     <LI> Open the preferences. </LI>
112     <LI> Go to the Disk Volumes tab. </LI>
113     <LI> Press the 'Create...' button
114     (go with the defaults, unless you think you will need a huge disk). </LI>
115     </OL>
116    
117     <P> If you want to have more than one hard disk available to Basilisk II,
118     you could create additional volumes here. </P>
119    
120     <H3> Installing the MacOS </H3>
121    
122 nigel 1.5 <P> Insert your MacOS install CD-ROM, and wait a few moments for the
123     OS X Finder to mount the disk. While still in your preferences: </P>
124 nigel 1.1
125     <OL>
126     <LI> Go to the Emulation tab and check that your emulation is appropriate
127     for your install image
128     <BR>(<I>e.g.</I> I had to change from Quadra900 to IIci,
129 nigel 1.2 because my generic 7.1 install CD didn't support the Quadra),
130     and that you have the RAM size set appropriately
131     <BR>(<I>e.g.</I> 8MB RAM may not be enough for a 7.5.3 install). </LI>
132 nigel 1.1 <LI> Click the save button. </LI>
133     <LI> In the BasiliskII Emulator window, click Run. <BR>
134     (If it is already running, but showing the floppy with the question mark,
135     press the restart button - the triangle in the bottom right hand corner) <BR>
136     You should get a HappyMac, and the emulator will start to boot from the CD.
137     You should then a dialog asking you to format a disk. </LI>
138     <LI> Click Initialize, then Erase, give the disk an appropriate name
139     (<I>e.g.</I> Hard Disk), then click OK. </LI>
140     <LI> Find the OS installer (in my case the CD booted into At Ease, and one of
141     the first buttons was 'Install System'), and go with the defaults. </LI>
142     </OL>
143    
144     <P> After the installer finishes it may try to reboot (or you may need to
145     force a reboot). When it reboots, BasiliskII may exit. Start it again,
146     and you should boot into your installed OS. </P>
147    
148     <HR>
149    
150     <H2> <A NAME="mount">Mounting Unix Files</A> </H2>
151    
152 nigel 1.2 <P> If Basilisk II is running MacOS 7.5.3 or newer, you can easily access some
153 nigel 1.1 of the files from your OS X disks. Just set the 'Unix directory to mount' in the
154 nigel 1.4 Volumes tab of the Preferences. Next time the Emulator starts up, a new disk
155     will appear on its Desktop (called Unix). </P>
156 nigel 1.1
157     <P> To prevent clashes with the OS X desktop files, I suggest that the directory
158     you select is not a whole disk (<I>e.g.</I> '/' or '/Volumes/disk'). Mount a
159     sub-folder instead (like '/Applications (Mac OS 9)'). </P>
160    
161     <HR>
162    
163 nigel 1.4 <H2> <A NAME="import">Importing Mac Files</A> </H2>
164    
165     <P> If you are not running MacOS 7.5.3 or newer, the above trick won't work.
166     This makes getting files into Basilisk II harder. Luckily, older versions of
167     Apple's "Disk Copy" utility can create a disk image file that is compatible
168 nigel 1.5 with Basilisk II (<I>i.e.</I> you can add it as a disk volume).
169 nigel 1.4
170     <P>Open 10.1's Disk Copy program, and create a "Mac Standard" image, or
171     use Disk Copy 6.??? in Classic.
172    
173     <HR>
174    
175 nigel 1.5 $Id: HowTo.html,v 1.4 2004/05/25 04:24:01 nigel Exp $
176 nigel 1.1 <BR>
177     Written by Nigel Pearson on 26th March, 2003.
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