On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:14:49PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Reset (zap) the PRAM. Turn the power off, then turn it on with the
Command-Option-P-R keys (all of them) held down. Hold the keys
down til it bongs a couple of times, then release and it should
boot normally from floppy.
Rick
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:43:49AM +0200, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
Now another problem surfaces: The hard-disk drive is only found
sometimes when booting woody from floppy. With MacOS there is no
problem. Anybody seen this, is a cure available? Maybe the disk is not
spun up?
There are two
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 05:43, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
The best way I've found to boot OldWorld Macs is with BootX, a little
I already mentioned, that MacOS is not an option. I want to donate the
whole disk to Linux and I'm unsure about the licensing: I inherited
these boxes with a MacOs 8.6
Reset (zap) the PRAM. Turn the power off, then turn it on with the
Command-Option-P-R keys (all of them) held down. Hold the keys
down til it bongs a couple of times, then release and it should
boot normally from floppy.
Rick
On Sunday, June 13, 2004, at 05:51 AM, matt-land.com wrote:
On
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 13:16, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
Hello,
I recently inherited several (4) oldworld 7600 Powermacs, one of them
132MHz, the others 120. I have successfully installed woody on one of
them using a boot floppy.
The floppy booting is a *very* erroneous process, I was
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 07:16:08PM +0200, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
The floppy booting is a *very* erroneous process, I was usually
successful booting from a floppy only after 5-6 tries.
The floppy driver in OF 1.0.5 doesn't have very good error handling. It
chokes on the slightest errors, even
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:40:14AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
Try getting a floppy drive cleaning kit.
[...]
Don't be afraid to use it two or three times on an old floppy drive that
is badly gummed up with dust and crud. You'll see a marvelous
improvement in the error rate in the
Hello,
I recently inherited several (4) oldworld 7600 Powermacs, one of them
132MHz, the others 120. I have successfully installed woody on one of
them using a boot floppy.
The floppy booting is a *very* erroneous process, I was usually
successful booting from a floppy only after 5-6 tries. In
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