emendelson wrote:
Unless I'm missing something, the guide seems to omit three essential steps:
1. In the list of volumes in the preferences, include the locked .iso file (it's easiest if it's in the same folder with SheepShaver and the blank disk image, so you don't need to enter a full path, just the filename). It doesn't matter if it's above or below the new blank image that you've created, because SheepShaver will boot to the first bootable disk image. But it may be slightly cleaner to put the .iso file above the new disk image.
2. Check the box next to the .iso filename
2. In the Boot From field, use CD-ROM (not Any), though it may make no difference in this case.
Question: These are essential steps, aren't they? I wonder whether they're missing because the instructions date back to a time when SheepShaver detected a real CD-ROM and booted from it? If these are essential steps, then it would help to update the instructions, I think.
Yes that would make things easier - those steps are rather essential things to include!
Ronald P. Regensburg wrote:
The setup manual has instructions both for using a "real" CD-ROM and for using a CD image as mentioned at the beginning of the manual:
(This guide describes a setup with installation of the Mac OS using a general retail system install CD. Alternative instructions for using a disk image file of a system install CD are added throughout this guide in italics and between brackets.)
Well, I followed first the instructions for setting up a virtual emulator, then as instructed followed the normal instructions. However, unless my instructions are out of date, then the steps mentioned above aren't actually there.
adespoton wrote:
In the latest versions of SheepShaver, instead of locking the iso, you have to select it as a CD image in preferences.
My version of Sheepshaver is 2.4.20140201 - is that a latest version? (Probably not, it goes back a few years). So it appears my choices are to put either a locked or unlocked version of the .iso file into the .sheepvm folder, but should I remove the extension first before I do that, then add it back?