Check out your external CD-RW to see if it is recognized by the OS. If so, you have 1 CD-ROM. Chances are you will need a program like Toast v4 or greater. You will find a lot of the software you need on the Low End Mac Swap List. Definitely worthwhile.
Install drivers for the peripheral, then hook up the hardware. The machine usually recognizes the hardware at boot up. If you use the Seagate you will need FWB Hard Disk Toolkit which has drivers for hundreds of hard drives. The Apple driver might not see the drive correctly. I may be wrong, though. TJ I use 8.6. It supports USB and is stable. -----Original Message----- From: 1st PowerMacs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ANdrei Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 6:23 PM To: 1st PowerMacs Subject: [1st] help with newbie "upgrade" 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 --------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
