From: Jessi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 17:36:34 -0800
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.
Use something like RAMDisk+ to make a 1.5 MB RAM disk on your Plus. Insert the installation disk in your LC520 and use LocalTalk to copy the contents of the installation disk to the RAM Disk on the Plus.
While System 6.8 doesn't support file sharing, it can mount volumes on the LC520 (assuming the 520 is running System 7 or later) using the AppleShare component for the Chooser.
So you should be able to mount your 520's hard drive on the Plus over LocalTalk and if you've done something like drag the icon of the installation floppy onto your hard drive (on the 520) you'll have a folder which has an exact copy of the contents for the installation disk on the HD of the 520.
So mount the 520's hard drive on the Plus desktop over LocalTalk. Copy the contents of the installation disk copy folder into the RAM Disk. Cut and paste the name of the folder as the name of the RAM Disk (the folder should have the same name as the installatino disk did).
Now the RAM Disk on the Plus looks just like the software installation disk and you should be able to run the installer.
Jeff Walther
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