I customised my SheepShaver VM and changed the boot order. Unfortunately SheepShaver crashes immediately. I fiddled with the options for ignoring illegal memory accesses and enabled the JIT compiler, which have helped before in the past, and the next time I launched SheepShaver I at least got...
Next - SheepShaver.
This time I was a little more successful in actually installing the OS onto a spare hard disk image. The first attempt failed as under the installer options, there's a tick box to update the Apple hard disk driver but it couldn't find disk copy. No worries, untick this...
So whilst having some issues with my BlueSCSI and CD-ROM images, I was chatting with a fellow enthusiast (PiperTheGreat) about a the beta firmware - but we got our wires crossed mainly as he thought when I said beta I was referring to an unreleased version of Mac OS 8.2 - codenamed Snowman...