INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE WITH FUSION First you need two things, a bootable disk (hardfile, CD, partition or floppy disk) and the MacOS 7.53 installer - this can be downloaded off Apple's web site... THE BOOTABLE HARDFILE & PREPARATION 1) If you already have a bootable MacOS disk or CD, then ignore this section. Go onto "DOWNLOADING THE SYSTEM 7.53 IMAGES & INSTALLATION", only if you have MacOS 7.0 and want to upgrade it. It's free & legal! 2) Download the Fusion Hardfile from this web site. Both are 2mb (unarchived). 3) Put the hardfile in the "Fusion/HardFiles" directory. 4) Load up Fusion, and selct "Devices Config". Click on "*MSHardFile0", and then click on this file in the Useable Devices window. This will jump over into the Selected Devices window, which now makes it your main bootable Mac disk. To move it back into the Useable Devices window, Shift+click on the device name. 5) Assuming you've already have set aside a partition or another large filedisk (100mb+) for installing MacOS, all you need to do now is save these settings. This is located on the configuration cycle button, under "Save Config". 7) Now start the Mac emulation*. Once it has booted-up, it will see the other hardfile or partition you've setup, and will ask you whether to initialise it, press OK. Unfortunately there is no progress bar, and it will take a few minutes to setup the partition/hardfile, so be patient. 8) Go to the next section below. [*When you boot from this hardfile, it'll display a warning saying that this System was meant to be for a floppy disk, ignore it, it will boot up fine anyway.] DOWNLOADING THE SYSTEM 7.53 IMAGES & INSTALLATION 1) These SMI (Self Mounting Images) disk images can be found via this search engine on Apple's web pages, at: http://asu.info.apple.com/ 2) Select your prefered language in the pop up menu (this is important). 3) Type in "System 7.5" in the search field, and press Search. 4) The next page will list all relevant downloadable files concerning System 7.5. Near the top of this list will be an entry entitled "System 7.53", click on it. It should display 20 files to download. 5) I recommend downloading the smaller BIN (Macbinary) files. 6) Now you can transfer the BIN files from the Amiga to the Mac side. To do this, load Fusion from WorkBench, and start the Mac emulation. Then press left Amiga + m keys to go back into Workbench. Now go to the Fusion screen and call up the ICP Control (Inter Communications Port) window, click on add, and it will list the currently used volumes, and click on the Mac volume you wish to use, and press the Return key, this will mount the Mac hardfile/partition onto Workbench. 7) Copy all the BIN files onto the Mac volume. 8) Once this is done, you can now go back into Mac emulation by pressing left Amiga + m keys. 9) Now you need to unarchive the BIN files, by using Stuffit Expander. You're better off expanding the BIN files into a separate folder on your main boot disk, and then trashing those BIN files (put them into the Wastebasket and go to the Special menu, and select Empty Wastebasket). If you're feeling lazy, and you want Stuffit to do all the work for you, then go into Expander's preferences and setup the "Destination" and "Watch Folder" options. These will allow you to select two folders in which Stuffit Expander will find archives (the Watch Folder) and expand them automatically into the destination folder. 10)Assuming none of the files were bad, we can proceed to the next phase - running the auto-mounting disk image files. Simply double click on disk image #1 - the one with the 3 charater file extension ".smi", and the only one with an icon. [The self mounting disk image program will now verfy all 20 parts of the System 7.53 image set, once this is done it will mount one disk image onto the Mac's desktop.] 11)All you've got to do now is to open the virtual disk and double click the System installer icon. This will bring up the installer splash screen, license agreement, and finally the easy/custom install screen. 12)Which one should I go for, Custom or Easy install? You may ask. Personnally I'd go for custom install, but that's just me. Either one will result in the same System setup for your Amiga. If you decide to go for a custom installation, then select "System software for this Mac" or something along those lines. Don't forget to select the OTHER partition/filedisk, to install the System onto. Don't install it onto your temporary boot filedisk, it will not have enough space. 13)No more action is required on your part once you've set it going. Once this lengthy installation is complete (takes about 30-40 minutes), all you need to do now, is to Shutdown the Mac emulation. Do this via the Special menu, and select "Shutdown", this will quit out of Mac emulation, into Workbench and the Fusion screen. 14)To boot off the full System Folder, you need setup Fusion to boot off the other hardfile or partition. All you have to do is to reorder the devices that appear in the Selected Devices window (Device Config setup window), so that the first device in the list has priority other the others. For other information regarding Fusion, please read the AmigaGuide manual.