> Will it run OS 9.2.2 does anyone know, as I have this as current > G3 software yet not the dead 9 ?!
Yes it will, I think a number of people on the list are using 9.2.2. See this page: http://www.os9forever.com/os92x.html for more details. My only concern is that, being in France, you'd need an International version of the patch, and all the International patches vanished before I ever found them (my system uses Internation English, not US English). Looking on the FTP site, I still only see the North American English patch there, although maybe the big patch archive has them all? If the languages don't match, the patch program will probably find a mismatch and fail. You might be able to install the US English 9.2.1 installer on top of the French version of 9.1 you have now anyhow, it'd just no longer be in French. And then use the US English patch on it to make it run on the StarMax. Sadly, the times I've tried this, everything's gone wrong so I can't tell you what I know will work. I think my copies of 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 were outdated (Apple keeps/kept changing them) - you should be OK here if you download the latest copies from Apple. > Can anyone give me some advise on a network card for the StarMax as > well. Thought I would venture into a house network! Probably any network card with Mac OS 9 support would be fine - I've never heard of anyone buying one and having problems. In fact, any PC one will do as long as it's got Mac drivers - mine's a cheap Allied Telesyn PC network card, but because it has a standard RealTek chipset, I was able to download and patch the RealTek driver (patch instructions come supplied, don't worry) to support my card. All patching does, by the way, is puts the card's PCI ID into the driver so that the driver knows which card on the system it's meant to be controlling - the ID depends on the vendor and model, of course. I see that new Allied Telesyn cards all come with drivers ready to download on their site now which is nice, so they're effectively Mac compatible as long as you can download the driver. -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
