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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 <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 <LI> <A HREF="#mount"> Mounting Unix Files</A> </LI>
13 <LI> <A HREF="#import"> Importing Mac Files</A> </LI>
14 </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 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 <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 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
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 path to the ROM file, or click the Browse button and Open the ROM file </LI>
58 <LI> Click the Save button, so that Basilisk II will be able to find the ROM
59 each time you boot it </LI>
60 </OL>
61 </P>
62
63 <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 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 <H2> <A NAME="b-disk"> Finding a boot disk </A> </H2>
72
73 <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
78 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 <BR>Thanks to Attilio Farina for this tip! </P>
100
101 <H2> <A NAME="install"> Installing the MacOS </A> </H2>
102
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 <LI> Start up the Basilisk application.<BR>
110 (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 <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
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 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 <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 <P> If Basilisk II is running MacOS 7.5.3 or newer, you can easily access some
153 of the files from your OS X disks. Just set the 'Unix directory to mount' in the
154 Volumes tab of the Preferences. Next time the Emulator starts up, a new disk
155 will appear on its Desktop (called Unix). </P>
156
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 <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 with Basilisk II (<I>i.e.</I> you can add it as a disk volume).
169
170 <P>Open 10.1's Disk Copy program, and create a "Mac Standard" image, or
171 use Disk Copy 6.??? in Classic.
172
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175 $Id: HowTo.html,v 1.4 2004/05/25 04:24:01 nigel Exp $
176 <BR>
177 Written by Nigel Pearson on 26th March, 2003.
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