[1st] Hard Disk Problem

2005-08-11 Thread NODEraser
I have a PowerMac 6100/66 with a G3/266 upgrade and OS 9.1, that I use as a master fileserver and research machine while I'm working on my other, older Macs. I have a couple hundred megabytes of software on there that I'd rather not loose (a lot of software when we're talking system 6 and 7).

Re: [1st] Hard Disk Problem

2005-08-11 Thread Bob Alcorn
Dear Noderaser, If you boot from the OS9.1 cd that becomes your startup hard drive. You will see the OS9.1 as your new system. The hard drive icon will be on the desktop also. Click on the icon to open it. It will have the applications, documents, and other folders on it. There is a previous

Re: [1st] Hard Disk Problem

2005-08-11 Thread Bob Alcorn
Dear Noderaser, Please re-read this. If you boot from the OS9.1 cd then INSTALL it. After you install it and restart it click on the hard drive icon to open the hard drive. There are your old folders and a NEW system folder. Note: There is a previous system folder with the old finder and

Re: [1st] Hello How old system to read

2005-08-11 Thread willi
Hi, y'all! Quoting Antonio: --- snip --- That's a horse of a different color. 400 Kb disks are *very* different from 800 Kb/1.44 Mb ones - they are single sided, and use the old MFS (Macintosh File System), which is completely incompatible with the later HFS. The Macintosh 128k and the