first excuse me for being the absolute newbie in the Mac field :) i have an 7100/66, with 48 or so mb ram (i can upgrade this without problem, should i need more) and basic hardware, meaning: a 14" Monitor with integrated speakers, the normal PDS-video-card with 1MB RAM, NO CDRom only FDD, a 500MB HDD and the usual stuff integrated in the mac (ethernet, sound etc, keyb and mouse).
now i bought all for 25?, to play with. bough a UTP transceiver, too, and so i plan to get this mac on the net. i guess i have system 7.5 on it, or smtg similar, i can't start it right now as i'm not where i keep it. What i need is a bigger harddrive and a cd-rom, as a first step to use this baby. I have a seagate barracuda with 4.2GB SCSI-2 lying around, and a HP CD-RW or other SCSI-cdroms... i know how to install hardware and so on, but have no clue on how the mac recognizes new hardware (it has no BIOS as i know it from the PC's, right?) and on what will work... nor d i have any documentation or installation CD's, only a few floppies. can anybody tell me if i can use the seagate barracuda and the HP CDRW (both SCSI-2) in the 7100/66? and if yes, what additional steps are erequired upon hardware installation, for the mac to see the hardware? then: how do i install MacOS? i would like to go to smtg like 8 or so, or at least reinstall a 7.5 (as the one it has on is messed up, and i usually like to do fresh installs for me). i have no CD's, can anybody help me with a cd-image file? i heard some OS are free, do i qualify for one of them? or has anybody a spare license of such an old OS? the image should be in some Pc-understandable format, as i have no writer on the mac yet. and then can anybody tell me what steps i have to go through to install the system? i don't want to go for the floppies, as i have no place to write the floppy images (or can i do this from a PC? anyway, I'd like to avoid floppies). or if i'm asking weird things here (aka bul*s**t) please correct me and lead me on the right track... as i've said, i'm really a newbie, though i am some kind of an expert in Unix and Windows... oh, and: any chance to put a Linux on this Mac? I also have a Performa450, but this is not PowerMac... if anybody has any suggestions, though, I'd like to use that one, too... i even have an external SCSI-CD-writer lying around, as it has no place for a cd... tks a lot! ANdrei -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> 1st PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
