at the temporal coordinates: 3/11/02 4:35 PM, the entity known as Donald McCaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] conveyed the following:
> Dear Guru's, > When I tried to install 7.6 (disk image) on my 1400 Nupower G3, it > said: "This program won't run on this computer." > Previous advice was: 1. Try to start from the CD > 2. Partition the drive > 3. Use cd 7.6.1 > > So I bought an aged CD player. The 2400 would not boot from Apple's 7.6 CD. > I then tried a Disk Warrior CD (new. I Use it on my iMac 9.1). No boot, > dialog box said I needed an updated CD. I've bought a 7.6.1 but I bet when > it gets here and I try it, my 2400 will reject it too. Norton says the hard > drive is fine. Any ideas? > > Thanks, Donald McCaig > If you have a Disk Tools floppy, make a copy, take Disk Tools off and put a 3rd party CD driver (CD-ROM Toolkit, or something like that) on it. When you boot from that floppy, you should be able to use the CD drive. The problem is that there are only a limited number of drives that Apple's default driver will support. And if it doesn't spin up fast enough, you can have a problem forcing it to boot from the CD. And if the CD automatically ejects when you restart, you have a problem using Startup Disk to tell the Mac to startup from the CD, because there won't be a spun-up CD in the drive by the time the startup process looks there. Oh, and I think Resexcellence has a hack whereby one can modify the Apple CD driver to use 3rd party drives, but I've always found that getting a 3rd party driver is better. - Eric. -- Eric Strobel (fyzycyst@NOSPAM^mailaps.org) ===================================================================== You can lead an idiot to knowledge, but you can't make him think... ===================================================================== ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Need help from a real person? Try. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------- Dr. Bott | 10/100 Ethernet for your 2400 is finally here! MPC-100 | <http://www.drbott.com/prod/mpc100.html> RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at <http://roadtools.com> Midwest Mac Parts ][ <http://www.midwestmac.com> After-market parts for Macs. ][ 888-356-1104 ][ MacResQ Specials: LaCie SCSI CDR From $99! PowerBook 3400/200 Only $879! Norton AntiVirus 6 Only $19! We Stock PARTS! <http://www.macresq.com>
