My previous reply should have gone further, but you'll understand that I'm going from memory now. My understanding is that, in order to run 8.1, the OS has to be installed on to an HFS+
formatted drive - end of story. If your machine can't start up from an HFS+ drive, then you can't run 8.1 - OS 8 is possibly as far as you can go, and I'd still recommend 7.6.1 as being the way forward for you. The huge hard drive - in terms of OS 7 and 8 - is perhaps also adding to your problems. I don't know much about that side of things - perhaps others on the list can clarify how you should proceed regarding formatting/partitioning.
Hope this helps somehow.
David
On 15 Feb 2004, at 04:25, Don wrote:
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:11:59 -0800 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all.
I have a Performa 636 who's hard disk failed (finally). It had OS 7.5.3 =
on
it. I replaced it with the smallest IDE drive I had - a 13 GB Quantum
Fireball, but OS 7.5.x wouldn't initialize the drive successfully.
I just received a copy of MacOS 8.1, and I booted the CD and initialized =
the
drive and installed 8.1 onto a single standard 13 GB partition (the =
notes on
the CD say that 68k based Mac's can't start from a HFS+ partition).
When I remove the CD and reboot, I get a ? Mac - it can't find anything =
to
boot from. Does anybody have any ideas what I am doing wrong, or can =
point
me in the direction of what to do?
Thank you!
--> Russ
I'm not remembering the source, but I recall long ago hearing some comments on this list that there is a 2 gig limit for hard drive size OR partition size.
It seems to me that it was a limit based on using Apple software to partition a drive on the 68 k processor machines ....I 'think' before system 8.1
I seem to recall that if you get away from the Apple software and / or get up to 8.1 that might relieve that issue and perhaps allow you to make larger partitions or use larger drives. YMMV.
Don
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