Yersinia,
The OS 7.6 may not be a universal install set.
Roger
Yersinia wrote:
> Hiya Listers,
>
> Much to my shocked surprise, my boyfriend discovered a full set of OS 7.6
> install disks neatly boxed up in his computer room this weekend with
> other old Mac software, and I wanted to see if I could install this OS on
> my PB 190 (OS 7.5.2), which I had up there with me. It wouldn't install.
> First it was telling me there were "problems" with the HD, so I Disk
> Doctored (found and fixed some problems so I guess it was right!) and
> then Optimized the HD before trying again. On the retry, there were no
> such "problems," but after numerous PITA disk switchings and operations
> which were taking quite awhile (though which seemed to proceed OK despite
> the slowness), when I got to about Disk 4 in the installation set, it
> finally told me it couldn't install the OS at all. Any idea why? I mean,
> if a PB 190 can run up to 8.1, surely 7.6 should be okay, right?
>
> ~Yersinia.
>
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