On Jun 29, 2017, at 4:48 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Try formatting the stick on the Mac running Classic MacOS. It should
> be in HFS+ format, not FAT -- you can't safely move Classic MacOS
> files on FAT volumes.
I think i virtually did that - I switched to using my 1st-gen iPod
(shuffle, no screen) as a USB transfer device. However I’m not certain, because
something else fixed the problem.
When I hit the same Apple URL from TenFourFox on the G4, it
automatically chose to send me a .bin file containing the .smi, which
transferred intact to the iPod and thence to the G3, and un-bin-hexed into an
.smi image that mounted on the G3, so that part of the problem is solved. I ran
out of time to actually do the firmware update last night, and probably can’t
get to it until the weekend :-( but will report.
I did try connecting ethernet on the G3 while in Mac OS 9.2 No light on
the hub. I could not find a way to force the baud rate in Mac OS 9.2 (part of
my “fumbling” below) so I never did see a connect light in that configuration.
I didn’t try pinging, presuming that no light definitively meant no packets
flowing.
> I would vigorously contest Classic MacOS as being in any way "clunky".
> It is the last of the line of real original Apple Macintosh operating
> systems. Mac OS X is a Unix, bought in from NeXT. It's a good Unix, a
> lovely smooth desktop OS -- I'm typing on it now -- but it's not a
> real Mac.
In most ways I agree! My daily driver for about a decade was a
PowerBook 3400 - starting in MacOS 7.6 (? I think - whatever came with the
machine new) and going straight through to MacOS 9.1. I worked on putting the
then-new OSX onto it but never succeeded and every iteration of 10.x looked
*slow* compared to 9.1 at the time - I was used to the key-stroke short-cuts on
9.1 and loved it, and finally decided that was exactly what belonged on that
machine. (Who ever heard of having to *log in* to my own laptop? :-) ). Mac OS
7 -> 9 and Eudora were the killer apps on which a large fraction of my career
success rested, and I do *not* want to sell that system short by any means!
Simultaneously, though, I was getting accustomed to the UI on my NeXT
computer, and I have gotten pretty settled into that (and derivative) UI on the
PB G4 that replaced the 3400 and on the MacBook with which I eventually
replaced the G4. (No, I never offered to return the old machines and yes, I
sitll have them!). So despite what should be muscle memory, I find myself
fumbling a bit when I try to do things on MacOS 9 - that’s what I was referring
to.
> They're totally different environments, with trivial cosmetic resemblances.
Agreed, and for identical hardware, I think there are pretty few
contexts in which MacOS 9 is not faster.
> But if you're not used to Classic, it's like nothing else you've ever used.
Probably my comment really means I need to spend more time on the 3400!
Thanks again for your suggestions, and I’ll let you know how it goes
this weekend.
- Mark
