I am trying to figure out how to make a boot disk for my Performa 575, but I am running into multiple roadblocks. Here are the main issues I am facing:
The internal (infernal?!) SCSI 2x speed CD-Rom drive has died I don't have Stuffit on the Mac, so I can't unstuff anything I download to the Mac I need an external CD or CD-RW drive to load my Stuffit CD! The current hard disk, which contains the only OS I have, is too small, only 80mb I can't seem to get any of the utilities I have tried to create a Mac boot disk on PC to work Solutions? Today I was fortunate to find a Seagate 1.06 GB SCSI hard drive for $10 at a local computer shop. I swapped it in and it runs, but it's PC formatted. Without a way to connect an external boot device I can't format the drive. Does anyone have an Apple External SCSI CD-Rom they wish to sell? And also possibly a copy of 7.5 on a bootable CD? I have tried more than a few ways to gain cross-platform access to my poor Mac, but everything seems to have conspired against me so far. Here are a few things I tried: http://mes.emuunlim.com/mes/index.htm - Several Mac emulators for PC, couldn't make any sense of any of them http://www.emulators.com/download.htm Gemulator Explorer - Thought I was about to succeed with this one, but in the final steps for creating a boot floppy it failed to transfer the image over to floppy, leaving only a blank floppy. Read through very carefully and followed directions but just could not get it to work. http://www.asy.com/ - TransMac, thought this would be helpful, but couldn't make any sense of it. Rather expensive at $64 http://www.macgeek.org/downloads/readme_dtools75.txt - Downloaded this utility but found it impossible to navigate using DOS command prompt commands. Dead end. http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_7.5_Version_7.5.3/ - I managed to download all 19 parts of this monster onto the Mac. Thank goodness I have an ethernet card which works well, and is fairly quick since I have a 1.5MB DSL connection! Of course Net-Scrape 2.02 crashes whenever it feels there is a need to do so, and pukes up errors about Java at startup, but it works, sort of like trying to fly a coughing, sputtering old Curtiss Jenny into a major airport and convincing air traffic control to actually let you land the thing........but I digress. But here once again I gotta have Stuffit to expand these things! The Mac's working 80mb hard drive boots fine for now but is almost full, and the floppy drive is good. I pulled the CD-Rom out, opened it up and checked the mechanism and connections. It's nice and clean inside, nothing obviously damaged, but it stubbornly refuses to accept a CD caddy. Attempts to start up after inserting a TechTool Pro CD (refuses any CD), powering on, and holding the C key resulted in a few brief spins of the disc, an ejected caddy, and a hung startup sequence, requiring a hard shutdown via main power switch. I am very much in need of an external SCSI CD-Rom. Besides, at 2x speed and having to put up with using caddys, it's about like watching slugs drag race! Aren't the external Apple CD's about 24x, a good bit perkier. Any suggestions and hopefully a way to get an external CD would be greatly appreciated! 'Til next time, Gary -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.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]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
