On 1/21/03 victoria brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Dan came up with this fascinating new (new to me anyway) notion yesterday:
>
>> Are you saying you don't have a partition set aside for VM _only_? Hmm,
>> maybe I'm the only one who does this, and maybe that's why I'm near
>> enough the only 'Booker around here who keeps saying 9.1 is the best
>> thing since sliced bread. I always partition drives into at least 3 or 4
>> volumes, an OS volume, a smallish scratch disk (for VM mostly), and more
>> vols for apps and docs. By moving all VM related activities out of user
>> space, I needn't worry at all about disk fragmentation.
>
>OK, my 5300 is now down to 16MB (see accompanying post) and will be
>dependent on VM from now on.  Dan's VM management technique sounds like an
>excellent idea and I'm eager to try it, but am anxious about wiping and
>partitioning the drive since with no CD-ROM attached directily to the 5300
>there's no way to reinstall the OS (8.5) except over the (ethernet) network.
>With the HD temporarily out of business where does the networking software
>live?  I haven't got the cable to hook it up in SCSI disk mode (and that's
>not supposed to work for system installation anyway); I *do* have a couple
>of bootable floppies, also a complete system 7.5 on floppies -- but there's
>no room on the bootable disk for the requisite software, and the GV ethernet
>card won't run on 7.5 anyway.
>
>Briefly, my question:  is it possible to reformat the HD and reinstall the
>OS over an ethernet connection to a CD in another computer?

The Network Access floppy disk will allow you to use the serial port for 
network access. Then you can load enough of OS 8.x onto your boot 
partition to allow booting the HD with the GV extension.

Older SW DLS:
<http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html>

Network Access Disk
<http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/E
nglish-North_American/Macintosh/Utilities/Network_Access_Disk_7.5.sea.bin>

What are your other Macs, BTW? If you have a desktop machine with an IDE 
bus you can attach the 5300's HD directly to the dt Mac's internal IDE 
cable using an inexpensive 2.5" to 3.5" adapter set. The ~US$5 set 
includes an connector adapter thingy (and a pair of brackets which I've 
never used.) I do this all the time to format laptop drives on my Beige 
G3 DT and it works great. As for an OS install, select the universal 
install and while you'll get tons of junk you'll end up throwing away, 
you should get what you do need. Alternatively, try using MacIDWannabe or 
Wish I Were to spoof the installer into thinking your DT Mac is a 5300 
(ID 128.)

Dan K (again, just chock full of ideas!  : >)

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