>From: "J. Ryon Lucke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: HFS+ & PB 190--Description of problems
>Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:51:20 -0400
>
>To answer the questions, I'm installing OS 8.1 from the CD that shipped with
>my neighbor's beige G3/233. It's the original Apple CD, not a copy.
>
>As for the problems, they have been many and varied and not quite like
>anything I'd ever seen before. The first several times I tried to boot the
>PB 190 into 8.1 from the HFS partition on the internal drive, the Finder
>never finished loading. It showed the desktop pattern and (blank) menu bar,
>and nothing else but the pointer. I once let it sit for several hours--no
>change. I had to resort to the reset button on the back panel to reboot it.
>Disabling extensions by holding down shift made no difference; space-bar-ing
>into Extensions Manager generated various random errors I won't even try to
>describe.
>Any further hints/tips/odd thoughts are sure to be appreciated.
>Thanks,
>Jesse
Jesse:
I've acquired an old-dog 190 running 8.1 just nicely from a
half-complete set of 8.1 backup floppy disks (CD left out someplace far
away a long long time ago...) that came with my donated gift machine. A
good bit of my Frankensteinian OS is "borrowed" from 7.6.1 and even a
couple of 9.1 thingies. Tells you how sturdy and stable the OS is in a
crunch. No problem. Heck, you can even run 7.6.1 halfway nice with just
8.1's System file in place of the real deal. However I most miss not having
OS 8.1's file sharing files since my 190 does double duty backing-up my
6320's HD via file sharing and SimpleBackUp from the 6230's side but not
the 190's unfortunately. Those file sharing files can't be had for blood or
money it seems! My asprin for your headache is forget all the Vegas
sleight-of-hand tricks and after backing up your files just do a total
flush job by totally re-formating (via Disk SetUp?) your 190's HD then feed
it your CD before you stick anything "old" in it (first see if the CD's
stuff smokes first). If your clean install clicks okay then the culprit's
lurking your old files and use TechTools to rout him out! This is the
quickest and least hassle-ful route to settle your problem.
JimWG
OS
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