Found a Mac IIci in a Friends Garage. Brought it home and plugged in the mouse and keyboard and found a VGA converter for it. It started up and made the good boot sound. But then i got the folder with the ? flashing..... nothing to boot off of. I listened to the hard drive and it is spinning. I took out the floppy and cleaned it with compressed air and put it back in. It seems to work. When I put the disk in it spings up reads and ejects. I am trying to make a boot disk out of the files available from Apple's site. I want to do System 6 because it is so much smaller and easier than 7. So I downloaded System 6.0.8. There were two image files for HD 1.44mb floppies like I have. I tried getting the image to copy from a PC to the floppy (as my powermac has no floppy) but I sucked it up and got a USB floppy Drive for my G4. I put in the floppy formatted it as Mac OS Standard (this is all in OSX on my G4) and used the terminal command ditto -rsrcFork to copy the files from the system install image file to the floppy. For those that don't know. ditto -rsrcFork copies the files and preserves the resource fork info. I then ejected the floppy booted up the mac. Threw it in the drive and it spins up reads and ejects and shoes an X where the ? used to be for about 5 flashes, then goes back to the ?. I then tried using the command bless -folder (the floppy)/System Folder. However, that also led to the same result on the Mac IIci. I have tried all the system 6 disks from Apple site and some of the System 7 disks. All give the same result. I also tried using Disk Copy to "restore" the disk image file straight to the floppy.... however this fails every time for an unknown reason. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong. Or is this just a bad floppy drive?
and on a separate note, there is a video card installed in the system and the monitor only works when i plug it into the video card.... the built in display plug does not seem to be working. I even tried removing the video card but it still did nothing. And on another separate note, when the power is plugged in it turns on without touching the on button. Nor have i found a way to turn it off without just unplugging it. Is this normal? Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer. -- System6 is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> System 6 Heaven <http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html> System6 info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/system6.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:system6@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/system6%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
