On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 09:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Andrew Robinson wrote: > >> I'm running 9.04 on my C600. I thought 8.6 was a little quicker but >> 9.04 >> gets me closer to the current OS in terms of features. > > Wow. Where the heck have I been?! > The last thing I read on specs was that Supermacs were doomed to 8.5 > forever. > Right now because of something exceptionally stupid I did, I'm going > to have to take the time to pop my C600 open and hit the CUDA switch. > I was wondering what OS I would load and how to go about it. (I recall > some discussion that one should go from OS to OS in an incremental > fashion but I could be way off there.) > > If anyone can support that it's okay to reset the machine to what > would have been 7.6 and then jump to OS 9 please let me know. I'd like > to do this procedure sooner than later given my C600 has been a > doorstop for 5 months. > > Cheers, > Deidre > > I went from OS 7.6.1 on my C500 to OS 9.1 directly. It didn't matter that my HD had been formatted way back when (1996) with FWB. The Apple drive tool had no trouble with FWB. The old rule of going through incremental installs of intermediate systems of 8.x didn't stop me from going directly to 9.1. Just make sure your machine is in good shape to begin with such as checking how much disk fragmentation there is. If there is a lot, then correcting that may help. Disk fragmentation made my upgrade to 9.1 from 7.6.1 a little rocky as after the upgrade, the 9.1 system wasn't too stable until I corrected disk fragmentation on a drive that was about 80 % full. Good luck. Eric -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> 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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
