List, Up until now, I have always been able to boot up ANY Mac with the "Network Access Disk." all of my 68K & PPC macs have always booted up fine with it, especially my PM 7200/75 when upgrading the "Finder and System" suitcase to cheaply upgrade the OS, say from 7.1 to 7.5 via booting up said disk and then running Zterm and direct linking to another mac running updated OS...Since the Finder and system suitcase cannot be replaced while the OS is using them, (I have tried and got a "Bomb"...I'm no Mac Expert!), I booted up the network access disk and then direct linked the two files and copied them to the "System folder". This way, I can do a cheap upgrade and then have no "bombs".
With that said, here's my prob....I have a Mac with OS 8.1 installed, I want that OS on another Power Mac...I don't have the CD, just recieved a 200MHz Mac with it installed by trading in a PeeCee laptop, and it even has a great Epson Stylus Color 600 Printer! But anyway, I found the way to cheaply install the 8.1 OS on my Power Mac 7200/75, but since the suitcase and finder are too big for a floppy, and since my OS 8 Mac doesn't have a burner, I have to transfer the two files via Zterm....Got that part! But I cannot replace the original files on the HD without crashing, seeing that they are in use, but when I tried to boot my Network Access disk on my PM 7200/75, up comes a new error: "This Startup disk will not work on this Macintosh Model. Use the latest installer to update this disk for this model." I have never seen the Mac that won't boot up the network access disk, and besides, It worked fine two days ago! Any ideas??? It works fine on my 68k Mac running the same OS, version 7.5.5! -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
