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Hacking the System, Mac OS 9.3, and Beyond ! / Re: Boot without the "Mac OS 9 Drivers"
« Last post by vaccinemedia on March 27, 2024, 02:43:40 PM »@vaccinemedia I was re-reading your update posts and wondered about the .hqx method you abandoned. Were you at one point getting an output patched ROM file with a .hqx extension?? And if so, what about then converting it to Mac binary format again (un-binhex the file). Shouldn't that result in a single, properly written ROM file?
Aaaaaahhhhhh! It's been a while since I used OS9 back in the day. I never recognised the .hqx extension so I never thought about using Stuffit Expander to expand the ROM. Instead I spent way too many hours with the separate files using ResEdit trying to make a full ROM again. Yes I'm assuming what you are suggesting may well work! The thing is... I abandoned the idea and instead decided to leave MorphOS out of the equation. The goal was to have as many operating systems on a brand new 128GB SSD using an IDE to M.2 adapter. Each additional OS install was removing the OS9 Drivers so I left that bit til last and left out MorphOS which was not playing nice with the multiboot setup at all.
I ended up with: OS9 / OS 10.4 (with classic) / OS 10.5 / Debian 12 / Adelie Linux / Lubuntu 16 Remix / OpenBSD 7.4
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I nearly forgot! You CAN partition a HD with OS9 drivers installed using a Tiger install CD using the terminal using a command like this:
diskutil partitonDisk /dev/disk0 OS9Drivers HFS+ macos9 35G JHFS+ macosx 35G
The above partitions the first HD with 2x 35GB partitions and installs OS9 drivers