OS 7 boot CD for Mac Plus?

Hello and greetings from Switzerland.
Before getting to topics let me introduce myself a bit. I'm a private collector of old NeXT, Atari and Apple hardware, living in Switzerland and as long as being no native speaker I hope You can understand my English...
I do have a problem that I can not solve and I'm looking for clues regarding my Macintosh Plus.
This nice littele machine ran Mac OS 7.5.5 off an old Rodime HD for nearly three years as a webserver using MacHTTP. Now this Rodime HD has gone to see its maker and I'm facing the fact, that old drives that can be used by the plus are harder to find than other hardware I already found.
Before I once installed a OS 7.5.5 off that harddisk onto a Iomega Zip and the Plus started off that one, too, but he does NOT start form a installed minimum os 7.5.5, which was placed onto a Zip by my PowerBook 145b. So I think any OS has to be installed off the Plus in order to run.
As it is getting harder to find 800k floppies, too, I thought about creating a bootable OS 7.5.5 CD for the Plus. I just tested this ability by placing an old PowerBook 1400c installation CD into the 600i CD ROM and the Plus started up to the point, where he stated that this CD can not be used by the Plus - the resources for the Plus were missing because this CD is solely for the PowerBook 1400c. I expected this but the Plus booted of that CD in the beginning so it seems to be a problem that can be solved.
As long as Apple's disk images of OS 7.5.3 and 7.5.5 only provide a installation but not a bootable system folder I began to wonder if it is possible to create a minimum bootable system CD for the Plus in order to install a 7.5.x off that CD onto a Zip connected to the Plus. I'm missing a "universal" OS 7.5.x installation CD, the only on I own is that PowerBook 1400c one.
So does any one have an idea or clue? I would like to rely on Zip cartridges as long as those are cheap and still available, old harddisks would be even better but in both cases I need a bootable system for the Plus NOT placed on a floppy - these can get broken easily and are harder to find day by day.
Thanks in advance!
J
P.S.: just in case someone is interested in and does not bother about the fact that my homepage is written in German solely You are welcome to have a look at http://www.blackmac.ch . There I'm introducing some of my old hardware and more is to come

Hello J,
I just got myself an old Apple 40 MB hard disk
That is probably a very good idea. The earlier problems with booting could have been related to the Zip (either a driver incompatible with the Macintosh Plus, or a compatible driver that had been corrupted or exchanged when used on a more modern Mac; or possibly the formatting). Remember that an old hard drive used with a Plus may have to be formatted in a special way, with an interleave factor 3:1. This is usually automatically accomplished by formatting the drive when connected to the Plus. One can also, in some cases (a hidden feature in Apple HD SC Setup) set the interleave factor manually, which allows formatting at another Macintosh computer.
and install a 7.5 onto it
The earlier booting issue may also have been linked to a system folder that was not properly active. One can "bless" the system folder by double-clicking on the System file; or by moving the System file and possibly the Finder out of the System Folder, closing the windows, then move the file(s) back in. I guess that you with the new hard drive will be able to install a working operating system, even when creating a system folder from one of the universal options ("for all Macs") on another Mac.
But I still would like to build a bootable CD for the Plus.
Sorry, I am not an expert in this field. There are two web pages (here and here) at the Low End Mac site dealing with similar subjects. Could details there be of interest to you? And, as always, read the software licence agreement(s) carefully in order to stay legal.
Alternatively, you could decide not to make the CD bootable. With a bootable disk (a floppy or the hard disk) containing the appropriate CD-ROM extension(s), the CD and its contents (no need for a system folder there then) would still be visible.
Disk Copy 6.3.3 is available for download from Apple (German version, US version).
Jan

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