I did it!
With the help of a little guidance I found on this page...
http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/
... I got my Classic II online on my home network - with a routed 4Mb Internet connection - from under System 6! Yay and verily even w00t!
Congrats. And Phil's pages really deserve praise and attention.
<snip> I'm now tempted to try changing the MacOS 7.6.1 install - which after /considerable/ grief I managed to move from the internal to an external hard disk - from OpenTransport, which everyone says is horribly slow on '030 machines and machines with little RAM (my Classic II is maxed out at 10MB) to MacTCP. No idea how to do that, yet. Hints welcome.
7.6.1 on a Classic II? Forget it, if you don't really REALLY need a special feature. A nice, clean system for a powerful machine (like a IIfx or an 040) with tons of RAM but a dog on anything less. Luckily it crashes on an SE/30's dirty ROMs.
I'm also considering finding yet another hard disk and trying System 7.0 or 7.1 on it.
woodwynlane proposes partitioning the internal HD which is surely more elegant than using multiple externals, but I guess you have the original 40 MB HD in it. Partitioning it will result in painfully small chunks, so you're better off with a bigger internal that might even produce less heat and consume less power than the old one. And you will wish to avoid time-consuming and frustrating desktop rebuilds by using a utility like System Picker or System Switcher, they even might spare you partitioning the hard drive.
I prefer 7.1 with the 3.0 upgrade aka System 7 Pro quite a bit over 7.0 which was really slow, but it's not free and you have to care for the enablers on many machines. Anyway it is the best bet for 68030s and a lot of others. I love the less-than-3-second boot time when I start a Classic (I) from ROM into 6.0.3, but I also love the less spartan approach of System 7.x. Remember the blues classic? "I am built for comfort, baby, I ain't built for speed"...? Your call.
Getting System 6 going has been fun, but not much I want runs under it. Not even my own copy of MS Word 5.1a, which was installed on MacOS 8 or so. It opens on System 6 but any attempt to save or open a file causes it to "unexpectedly quit". I'm not sure there's anything I can actually /use/ it for...
Word 5.1 is near perfect (aah, the times when Microsoft did things right...), but on my Macs and for my own use I preferred MacWrite 5 on System 5.1 and MacWrite II on 6, and I am still using MacWrite Pro v.1.5 for everyday letters in 9.2.2. I don't want whistles and bells but simple word processing. Why don't you go for the software that went with your mac instead of taking third party? But if Word 5.1 was a "first love", use it in 7.1 and you'll be happy. I never tried it with Sys 6 but was very pleased with what MS was able to put into 900-some kilobytes on later systems.
Have fun, OM
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