>Howdee Listers: > >I just acquired a messa Powerbooks (that some IBM'er got in a grab-bag at >some church thingie) of various types and specs. > >Now, back in the old days of system 7.1, there was a floppy called "Disk >Tools" that could ... well, heck; y'all remember that...!!! > >I tried my old copy of it on these PB's but they all said that they could >not >use it because the system on it was too old. > >Is it possible to put any variation of 7.5 (or anything after 7.1.x) onto >ONE >floppy? OR CONVERSLY, is there ANY WAY to startuyp a modern mac on a floppy? > >(Of course I know that I could always hook up the PB to a Desktop w/ a >CD-ROM...) D/L Apple's Network Access - it's a 7.5 boot floppy image (1.3MB) which will boot all PBs up to and including the 500 series, and all DT Macs prior to the PCI- based Power Macs/Performas.
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