Yersinia wrote:
Yes, I already had updated to 7.5.3r2, but the 7.5.5 instructions were a bit hard to follow. I just now succeeded, and my 190 comes up as 7.5.5. Thanks to all who helped.John Perry writes,
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You can download the OS 7.5.5 upgrade for free from Apple. Yes, you'll have to do that PITA floppy crap to get your upgrade done, but I had moved my 190 from 7.5.2 to 7.5.3 to 7.5.5.
I don't know what you're using your 190 for, but maybe you don't really need to go past 7.5.5. I was able to word process, email, chat (IRC and AIM) and go on the web (iCAB) with mine on 7.5.5. I suppose if your uses are more complex than mine (games? music? video?) then maybe you do need the upgrade. But if your needs are similar to mine, you might be just as well off staying where you are and not taxing RAM or other resources to run a higher OS than you really need. Just a thought. :-)I don't do much in the way of games (Freecell and Shisen-sho are about it), and I don't do chat at all. I do a lot of Web work, and that I like to do from behind my firewall. I also do a lot of word processing, but I need more than Claris can provide. I need ethernet, usb, and maybe a cdrom. But until I'm more comfortable with the 190, I'll stick with what I've got. It's just that I'd really like to have a laptop to take with me on the job, and I can't afford a better one now (a victim of the recent NASA layoffs).
For now, I'll just try to keep my engineering log on it. I'm digging through the freeware and shareware resources now, looking for engineering aids and such.
~Yersinia.
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