Hi all,
I recently purchased a PowerMac 8600 upgraded with a G3/333 card. This computer also came with an Apple PC Compatibility Card installed. The machine is second hand and the origional owner wiped the HD so when I got the system I just knew that there was a PC card in it and that it had at least a 166 MHz CPU but that was all.
I downloaded the most recent copy of Apple PC Compatability that I could find and the extentions and Control Panel load fine. From the Control Panel, I made a blank DOS container file and can "boot" the card but I can't see what is going on on the PC side and I can't find a way to get an operating system on it.
I have a legal Windows 95 CD but it is not bootable. I have a Windows boot floppy disk but the Control Panel will not let me use the disk image as a drive, nor will it allow me to select the floppy as a bootable partition.
When it boots up (without an OS) the Control Panel says "PC Started" and when I switch to the PC screen all I see is the DOS/PC clipboard but no PC display.
1.) How do I get this card booted with an OS from which I can install my copy of Windows 95 on the HD container from?
2.) How can I actually *see* what is going on with the PC side? I am guessing that since there is no OS that it is not letting me get that far but I don't know.
Hi Matt
And for everyone else, here we go again. :)
Do you have much pc experience or are you a mac user?
On my card you need the dongle to be connected to the dos card, the monitor output on the mac and the monitor cable itself. Yes?
Have you a windows boot disk? if so use it as you would on a bare pc, fdisk, format and install. The install part requires the cdrom.sys (mac) to be subbed for the usual M$ junk on the floppy so you can use the macs, oh so speedy, cd-rom.
This is the bit where, if your a mac person, I offer to send you a image which you can make on the mac. A pc person would either make or download a boot disk and change the cd calls in autoexe.bat and config.sys
When switching from mac to pc you should be greeted by a dumb arse dos screen stating the bloody obvious, "No system found" blah blah.
If you dont see this and have the dongle, check the connections arn't arse about.
Mac support runs up till 1.6.4 (yawn but needed) which you might like to update to 2.1.7 (anyone else remember the more to come from this mob?)
http://web.archive.org/web/20011229162337/http://www.pcsetup2x.com/support/support_FAQ.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20030207113524/http://www.pcsetup2x.com/index.html
A handy FAQ is http://homepage.mac.com/olivers/DOScard/DOScard.html but the links are shot, might give you some ideas.
Well I'm sure someone will agrue the toss on this one. :)
Cheers
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