I will shortly be acquiring a Macintosh SE/30, and it's coming with a network card (of a 10base2 type) installed. It's also coming with an OS installed, System 7.0 I believe, and there's two things I want to do to it:
1. Do a clean install of (an) OS, because the one that's coming with it is apparently well-used. 2. Hook it up to my existing home LAN, which includes a Windows PC, a Power Macintosh G5, and an internet router. Presumably on the hardware side I will need a 10base2-10baseT converter, and that shouldn't be too difficult to find, but my experience with versions of Mac OS previous to 9 are very limited. I know the latest version I can run on the SE/30 is System 7.5.5 - does this support TCP/IP? I've fished around the Apple download site and found a full install of 7.5.3 - but it's designed to be burnt onto a CD. Can I still get CD-ROM drives for the SE/30? eBay would seem a good bet - what should I search for? I also found a version of 7.0 in floppy format, but my G5 doesn't have a floppy drive. Buying a USB floppy drive would seem to be one solution for that, but I was also wondering whether it's possible to boot the SE/30 over the network and do a clean install that way, possibly from my 7.5.3 download? Advice would be appreciated. :) -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
