>Hi folks, > >Hope you can send me some anti-frustration medicine. I was making >progress until just now with my Plus. I got 6.0.8 and most of the >programs I wanted installed on the external SCSI drive, and it was all >working great. Maybe I should have stopped there. > >Instead I thought, forge ahead! and I attached the used Asante Mini >EN/SC adapter I'd gotten, and chained my SCSI drive off of that. Turned >termination off on the EN/SC. Booted up and tried to use the Asante >EtherTalk Installer floppy. > >Well, I shoulda known, but that floppy won't work with my Plus floppy >drive. My Plus can only read 800k disks. > >So I tried a workaround. I used my LC 520 to copy the files off the >Asante floppy to 2 800k floppies. Went back to the Plus, copied those >files into a folder on the external drive. Tried running the installer. >Well, the installer can't deal with not having the exact physical >floppy. It asks me to insert it. THen when I do it says the floppy is >unreadable of course. > >Aargh! Next try. I go to Jag's House and download the files he says you >need for your Plus running System 6 and using the Asante EN/SC. Get >them onto the Plus' drive, in the system folder. Restart the Plus. Go >to the Control Panel. choose Network. Crash. Damaged my system file. > >Well, I've fixed the damage and am back where I started. I messed >around with Apple's NSI, various versions, but they are the same dealio >as the Asante installer, seem to need a computer that can read more >than 800k disks. And now I am afraid of the Network control panel. Any >thoughts as to what I should try next? > >Thank you, > >Jessi >
Rice's approach is simple and elegant, and above this, it would give you an excuse for having another Compact; but this could take some time. In the meantime, don't give up, think positive: Your Plus's system 6.0.8 is capable of handling 1.44 MB floppies. Your problem lies in the hardware. So, why don't you install on your HD a version of DiskCopy that can handle 1.44 MB disks, make an image of the Asante EtherTalk installer floppy (you've got 5.6.1, right?) on your 520 and transfer that to your external HD via SCSI. I don't think the Plus's weird 1:3 interleave should make the HD unreadable for the 520, only desktop rebuilding might come into the way. There's a hack, a key combo perhaps, to prevent it, but I can't remember it from the top of my head, more knowledgeable people on the list will know. Take the HD back to the Plus, mount the installer floppy image and install away...and don't tell me it didn't work. <coughing nervously because there's always a reason or two for something not to work...> Good luck, OM /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
