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- Main point: I need a disk image that the Fusion 3 Mac emulator can boot. I have tried a number of disks that work with VMac, and tried making some of my own with HFS utils and HFV Explorer. Fusion 3 also came with a UTILS disk, which did not work...
- I'm pretty sure that the problem is with the images I'm trying to boot, not Setup (it all works fine, ROMs (I have three, all 1 MB and with checksums of ECBBC41C, 06684214, and 420DBFF3), or some part of my computer (I've tried it on 3 computers - a 486/33 which was probably too slow anyway, a Pentium 120 MHz, and a Celeron 633 MHz). The Mac emulation starts out okay... I get the startup sound, the mouse works, it scans the floppy drive, and then I get Welcome to Macintosh. Then I'll either get a System Address Error and a note that I can disable extensions by holding Shift at boot, which gives the same error but reports Extensions Disabled, a disk with a O and X on it (when I was trying some weird images like Disk Tools when I wasn't sure they were written properly), or a disk with a ? on it (when I tried the UTILS.HDF that came with Fusion).
- I downloaded a copy of the full System 7.0.3, in the form of self-extracting files, which extract several 800K disk images successfully under VMac, which I can't do much with. If I copy them, using only raw data, VMac and Fusion both refuse to do anything with them... and HFS utils won't read them as images. I don't know if it's the fact that they are meant to be written to disks with 10 sectors/track... but they just don't work. That's what someone told me to do - write the Disk Tools image to a disk. I also messed with making an image using VMac, HFS utils, or HFV explorer, and none worked.
- I was on a website that had some Mac stuff, including some things for emus... I found a disk tools image there, which it said could be booted on any Mac with a 68K CPU... this didn't work. It also had what it said was a Fusion image, but it used some weird Amiga LVX format and I could not find a DOS/Win utility anywhere that could extract it... and LHA did not work, contrary to what some website was saying that LVX and LHA were compatible.
So, that's my basic request: a disk image that can be booted with Fusion. As I've said, I already have a copy of the full MacOS 7.0.3, but I can't run it directly - I need a simple running system in order to run it.

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