Thanks everyone for the help. I ended up removing the System file from the System Folder and then renaming the System Folder to something innocuous. The wierd thing was (to me at least) that after this treatment was applied, instead of giving me the blinking ?, the SE/30 would momentarily display the Happy Mac, pause, show it again, pause etc. ad infinitum. No matter how I mangled the System Folder, I was unable to supress this behaviour.
At any rate, the reason I was doing this was because I run Debian Linux on this machine and that stopped working once I turned AppleTalk off. I wanted to try various Systems of the SE/30 to see if that cleared the problem. As it turns out, I appear to have just wasted some hours of my time over several days sitting through the '30's interminably slow Linux boot-ups and shutdowns only to learn that the root cause of the problem seems to be a conflict with one of two Control Panels I have on the system - After Dark or MountCache. Computers - gotta love 'em. Adam. > I don't know. Other will. But I'd do this: Trash 7.1 but be sure there is a > way back: save all extensions and CP etc that you want to save for later > (non-system ones). > Then download 7.1 and put them on floppies and verify that they work. I'd > keep a copy of a working system 6 on floppy with a HD utility at hand, too. > Then I'd go ahead and install 7.0.1. <snip> > You made me curiuos about the reason, the so called 'ahem, situation'... > > -mart -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... SPECIAL LIST PRICES - Replacement Apple CDROMs from $19.99, MacOS 8.5 CD $79.99 PPC 5400/200Mhz 16/1.6GB/CD/ENET/L2 $119, 5+ for $99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> 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]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
