Hi gang. I need a few more MB of brain cells before I can understand why I can't accomplish the "simple" task of placing 7.5 on my Performa's hard disk. Read on and let the fun begin. Feel free to sprinkle advice whenever appropriate! Take a deep breath, here goes:
(Adventure begins here) Cold booted from Ramdisk Booter (courtesy Bob Crowell www.bobc.freeshell.org/sys75) - floppy ejected Remade installer disk set from previously downloaded files with WinImage Put 1st disk in and clicked installer. It ran until it said it was finishing, but apparently hung and never asked for the next disk. Little fingers of hand were still moving, but no disk activity heard after it hung Did a hard shutdown and rebooted from RamDisk floppy Upon rebooting, my hard disk is gone!!!!!!!!!! This is totally new. Oh well Reboot again with RamDisk floppy, it will not boot without it (you get a Happy Mac, the screen goes blank and turns black with a Dead Mac and some hexadecimal codes) Next I hooked up my CD drive and put in TechTool Pro. This is recognized after booting. I run the tests and it says catalog files are corrupted and cannot be repaired I re-initialize the hard drive It's icon is once again on the desktop and can be opened I copy a few files to it to test it. Works OK I reboot again and RamDisk has lost the hard drive again For the life of me I don't know what's wrong with this thing. I have a good MB, good HD and 128MB of good physical memory which shows up in the memory control panel. I've got 32-bit addressing turned on. I downloaded RamDisk Booter and the 7 disk images onto brand new floppies and the floppy drive was cleaned a few days ago, wasn't really grungy. As far as I know the downloads I received came through without a hitch. However, it is conceivable that a data glitch could have occured during download. Anybody got any great ideas I haven't stumbled across? This thing has showed me more ways to do stuff wrong than I have ever thought to learn! Now I wish it would show me the right way! This is becoming very frustrating. Wish we had the equivalent of what PC's have where someone else can remotely see your screen and "drive", showing you things from their end of the screen. Looks creepy, kinda like a Ouija mouse! But it's a great diagnostic/teaching tool that bridges the communications gap when problem-solving, instead of playing endless e-mail tag with each other (what....OK, now what?....I did that....now what?) Thanks for any advice. I'm sure it's easier than it looks, but I must be blind or something! '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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
