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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 <LI> <A HREF="#net"> Networking</A> </LI>
15 </UL>
16
17 <HR>
18
19 <H2> <A NAME="minreq"> Minimum Requirements </A> </H2>
20
21 To run Basilisk II, you need both:
22 <UL>
23 <LI>A Mac ROM image. Even though there is a ROM in your OS X Mac,
24 it is too new for a 68k Mac to make use of. Any Mac II ROM,
25 and most of the Quadra ROMS, will work.
26 <BR> (Quadra 660av and 840av ROMs are currently unusable.
27 I don't know about Mac LC ROMs. In the near future, Mac Plus,
28 SE or Classic ROMS may also be usable, though only for emulating
29 a monochrome Mac). </LI>
30 <LI>A copy of the MacOS, which at the moment has to either be on
31 a CD-ROM, or on a disk image </LI>
32 </UL>
33
34 <HR>
35
36 <H2> <A NAME="rom"> Macintosh ROM image </A> </H2>
37
38 <P> To run Basilisk II, you need a ROM image, which is a data file
39 containing a copy of the ROM chips from a real 68k Macintosh. </P>
40
41 <P> The best way (<I>i.e.</I> most legally acceptable) to get a ROM
42 image is to produce it from your old Mac. Take a program like CopyROM,
43 download it onto your old Mac, and use it to produce the image file,
44 which you then copy or upload to your OS X Mac.
45 A good page which describes this process is
46 <A HREF="http://mes.emuunlim.com/tips/capturing_a_mac_rom_image.htm">here</A>.
47 </P>
48
49 <P> The easiest way to get a ROM image is to get one from someone else
50 (<I>e.g.</I> another Basilisk II user, or an emulation web site).
51 Note that this probably contravenes several copyright laws. </P>
52
53 <P>Once you have your ROM image, you need to tell Basilisk II to use it:
54 <OL>
55 <LI> Open the Basilisk II application </LI>
56 <LI> Go to the 'BasiliskII' menu, then the Preferences...' menu item </LI>
57 <LI> On the Emulation tab, there is a field 'ROM file:'. Either type in the
58 path to the ROM file, or click the Browse button and Open the ROM file </LI>
59 <LI> Click the Save button, so that Basilisk II will be able to find the ROM
60 each time you boot it </LI>
61 </OL>
62 </P>
63
64 <P> If you want to test this, press the Run or Power button
65 (in the top right corner of the 'BasiliskII Emulator' window).
66 After a few moments you should see a Mac screen, with a picture of a floppy
67 disk with a flashing question mark. That is the Mac telling you that it needs
68 a disk to boot from. </P>
69
70 <HR>
71
72 <H2> <A NAME="b-disk"> Finding a boot disk </A> </H2>
73
74 <P> Basilisk II needs a copy of the MacOS to boot from. Anything from System 7
75 through to MacOS 8.1 should be usable.
76 <BR> (Felix Eng and I have only tested System 7.0.1, 7.1, 7.5.3 and 7.6,
77 although Felix also got System 6.0.8 to work with SE/30 Roms) </P>
78
79 Basilisk II can currently boot from:
80 <TABLE BORDER=1>
81 <TR>
82 <TD> CD-ROM </TD>
83 <TD> Most (not all) MacOS Install CDs will also boot your Mac. I also think
84 that some old Norton Utilities install CDs might have booted 68k Macs </TD>
85 </TR>
86 <TR>
87 <TD> Floppy disk image </TD>
88 <TD> Jonathan C. Silverstein reports that
89 <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> Apple floppy disk image will boot Basilisk II </TD>
90 </TR>
91 <TR>
92 <TD> Preinstalled Basilisk II disk image </TD>
93 <TD> Another Basilisk II user might be willing to loan you the disk image
94 that they are using </TD>
95 </TR>
96 </TABLE>
97
98 <P> It is possible to use Basilisk II with a CD-ROM or floppy image, but
99 because most bootable CDs have a minimal System Folder, it is better if you
100 use a disk image with a more complete MacOS installed on it. The next section
101 tells you how to do this. </P>
102
103 <P> Note that there is currently no Install CD image on Apple's Web site, but
104 they do seem to have MacOS 7.5.3 floppy disk images (all 19 of them). Burning
105 those images onto a CD (not in the extended format) should allow you to install.
106 <BR>Thanks to Attilio Farina for this tip! </P>
107
108 <H2> <A NAME="install"> Installing the MacOS </A> </H2>
109
110 <H3> Create a new BasiliskII disk </H3>
111
112 <P> Before you can install the MacOS onto a disk volume,
113 you need to create a disk to install onto: </P>
114
115 <OL>
116 <LI> Start up the Basilisk application.<BR>
117 (If it is already running, skip this step)</LI>
118 <LI> Open the preferences. </LI>
119 <LI> Go to the Disk Volumes tab. </LI>
120 <LI> Press the 'Create...' button
121 (go with the defaults, unless you think you will need a huge disk). </LI>
122 </OL>
123
124 <P> If you want to have more than one hard disk available to Basilisk II,
125 you could create additional volumes here. </P>
126
127 <H3> Installing the MacOS </H3>
128
129 <P> Insert your MacOS install CD-ROM, and wait a few moments for the
130 OS X Finder to mount the disk. While still in your preferences: </P>
131
132 <OL>
133 <LI> Go to the Emulation tab and check that your emulation is appropriate
134 for your install image
135 <BR>(<I>e.g.</I> I had to change from Quadra900 to IIci,
136 because my generic 7.1 install CD didn't support the Quadra),
137 and that you have the RAM size set appropriately
138 <BR>(<I>e.g.</I> 8MB RAM may not be enough for a 7.5.3 install). </LI>
139 <LI> Click the save button. </LI>
140 <LI> In the BasiliskII Emulator window, click Run. <BR>
141 (If it is already running, but showing the floppy with the question mark,
142 press the restart button - the triangle in the bottom right hand corner) <BR>
143 You should get a HappyMac, and the emulator will start to boot from the CD.
144 You should then a dialog asking you to format a disk. </LI>
145 <LI> Click Initialize, then Erase, give the disk an appropriate name
146 (<I>e.g.</I> Hard Disk), then click OK. </LI>
147 <LI> Find the OS installer (in my case the CD booted into At Ease, and one of
148 the first buttons was 'Install System'), and go with the defaults. </LI>
149 </OL>
150
151 <P> After the installer finishes it may try to reboot (or you may need to
152 force a reboot). When it reboots, BasiliskII may exit. Start it again,
153 and you should boot into your installed OS. </P>
154
155 <HR>
156
157 <H2> <A NAME="mount">Mounting Unix Files</A> </H2>
158
159 <P> If Basilisk II is running MacOS 7.5.3 or newer, you can easily access some
160 of the files from your OS X disks. Just set the 'Unix directory to mount' in the
161 Volumes tab of the Preferences. Next time the Emulator starts up, a new disk
162 will appear on its Desktop (called Unix). </P>
163
164 <P> To prevent clashes with the OS X desktop files, I suggest that the directory
165 you select is not a whole disk (<I>e.g.</I> '/' or '/Volumes/disk'). Mount a
166 sub-folder instead (like '/Applications (Mac OS 9)'). </P>
167
168 <HR>
169
170 <H2> <A NAME="import">Importing Mac Files</A> </H2>
171
172 <P> If you are not running MacOS 7.5.3 or newer, the above trick won't work.
173 This makes getting files into Basilisk II harder. Luckily, Apple's 'Disk Copy'
174 or 'Disk Utility' can create a disk image file that is compatible
175 with Basilisk II (<I>i.e.</I> you can add it as a disk volume). </P>
176
177 <OL>
178 <LI> Open 10.1's 'Disk Copy' program, and create a 'Mac Standard' image,
179 <BR> or 10.3's 'Disk Utility', and create a 'read/write disk image',
180 <BR> or Disk Copy 6.??? in Classic, and create new image </LI>
181 <LI> If the image is not mounted, mount it </LI>
182 <LI> Copy any files that you want to access in the emulator to the mounted
183 image </LI>
184 <LI> Unmount the image </LI>
185 <LI> In Basilisk II's preferences, go to the 'Disk Volumes' tab,
186 add your new image, and start the emulation </LI>
187 </OL>
188
189 A new disk should appear on the emulation's desktop which contains the files
190 that you wanted to access. If the emulator complains about a disk needing to
191 be formatted, you may have chosen the wrong type of image type in 'Disk Copy'
192 or 'Disk Utility.'
193
194 <HR>
195 <H2> <A NAME="net">Networking</A> </H2>
196
197 <P> If your Mac is networked, then your emulated MacOS can also access that
198 network:
199 <OL>
200 <LI> Open Basilisk II, go to the Preferences, then the Hardware tab,
201 and set the emulator's EtherNet interface to slirp </LI>
202 <LI> Start the Emulator </LI>
203 <LI> In the emulated MacOS, open the TCP/IP Control Panel and set:
204 <UL>
205 <LI> 'Connect via:' to EtherNet, and </LI>
206 <LI> 'Configure:' to 'Using DHCP Server' </LI>
207 </UL>
208 <LI> Restart the emulation. </LI>
209 </OL>
210 You should now be able to surf the web, or FTP download software,
211 in the emulated Mac. Not sure about AppleTalk networking, though. </P>
212
213 <P> Note that this does not require the OS X Mac to be using EtherNet,
214 any working TCP/IP networking should be fine. I have tested it over
215 DHCP EtherNet (ADSL modem/router at home), and with a static IP
216 address at work (which also has an external web proxy/firewall). </P>
217
218 <HR>
219
220 $Id: HowTo.html,v 1.5 2005/08/14 12:22:31 nigel Exp $
221 <BR>
222 Written by Nigel Pearson on 26th March, 2003.
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