I'm having trouble installing a program in BII running 7.5.3 when it asks me to "insert disk 2." Mounting all three disks at the same time doesn't work. I don't own a detachable floppy drive.

Is there anything I can do? I'm guessing that a lot of programs created in that era span across multiple floppy disk images, so I'm hoping there's a solution.

You can try this:

Have all floppies mounted in BII. In 7.5.3, drag the mounted floppy volumes one by one to your startup volume (or to another volume that you created for this purpose). The floppy volumes will be copied as folders with the same names as the mounted volumes. It is important to not change the folder names and to keep them together in the same location, best at root level of the volume they are now on. The floppies can be unmounted. Start the installation from the folder that is a copy of the first disk.

Or try this:

Make a disk image of each floppy with Disk Copy.
Unmount the floppies.
Mount the disk images by double-clicking.
Start installation from the first disk.

My first attempt was to make disk images in disc copy. All was fine. I mounted the disc images in sheepsaver. They are on my desktop now. I opened the first installer of two. It was installing the software. The progress bar went about 50% then stopped to instruct me to insert disc 2. I could not get out of this dialog box. Had to force quit.
Thank you for your help

These methods never worked for me on either BII or SS because the installer would capture all the input, similar to the thread at http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5281. It sounds like that person tried to use Windows because you're able to explicitly mount a physical floppy drive on demand on the Windows port? And it sounds like he was unsuccessful. I don't know if there's a way around this but the Windows method might work -- it would require an external floppy drive and copying the images onto physical disks and for Windows-SS to recognize them on command though.

I'm trying to install Adobe Photoshop (from Macintosh Garden). To complete the instalation, the installer needs more than one disk. Basilisk II don't accept mounting drag&drop disk images.

How do I to mount a floppy disk image directly to continue the instalation?

I'm using Windows 7.

Hi,

You can try to mount all floppy images as disks by adding them to the volumes list.
Please check that the images are write-only in Windows.

Best,
Cat_7