--- On Fri, 8/7/09, Knievel <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Knievel <[email protected]> > Subject: Best OS version for a Mac Quadra 700? > To: "Vintage Macs" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 11:26 PM > > I recently got a Mac Quadra 700 with System 7.5 on it and I > was > wondering what people thing the best OS to re-install into > it would > be? It's got a lot of "stuff" from the last owner so > I'd like to just > save whatever apps look interesting and wipe it to start > over.
You can download 7.5.3 and the 7.5.5 update for free. 7.5.3 is a 19 part (20 for some languages) self mounting image. All the parts need to be in the same folder, then doubleclick the first one to mount the image. http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_7.5_Version_7.5.3/ You can then install from that or copy the contents to another disk such as a Zip 100. If you mount the image on a Mac with a CD burner, you can burn the "drive" direct to CD-R but it's not a bootable image. If you want real 1.44M disk images for 7.5.3, they're out there, somewhere, on the web. The 7.5.5 update is 1.44M Disk Copy images so those can either be copied to disks or all mounted on the desktop to do the update. If you do a custom install to NOT put all the useless for your particular Mac extensions and control panels on the drive, the 7.5.5 update will do it anyway. That's the way of most System and OS updates- ignoring the user's preferences to not clutter up their Mac. :P Another possibility is buying a Mac OS 7.6 CD, which is nice if you have a CD-ROM drive for your Quadra 700. The 7.6.1 update is mostly for PPC Macs so unless you run into some 68k program that absolutely demands 7.6.1, don't bother updating. Yet again the annoyance of Apple not using the Mac's built in system identification so the installer could've been written to NOT install useless things! (Like A/ROSE on every Mac even when there's no Apple NuBus ethernet card with a 68000 CPU or Serial Switch on all Macs when only 2 or 3 Quadra models need it, and all those printer drivers for printers you don't and never will have.) Then there's the Apple Legacy Software Recovery CD-ROM. This disc has disk images for all major System and Mac OS versions and all the updates from 1.0 through (IIRC) 8.1. It also has drivers and some applications. It even has a lot of Apple's apple ][ software. It has NO apple /// software, yet it includes the final update to A/UX and an A/UX boot floppy image. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
