"Why? Because I think it's fun! Whee!"
That's the spirit, Marcus!
Your LC II should boot from the external SCSI CD drive. Make sure that the SCSI
ID is set to anything other than 0 or 7. Typically 3 is a good choice.
Apple Boot Key Combos:
** Bypass startup drive and boot from external (or CD).... CMD-OPT-SHIFT-DELETE
**
or
** Boot from CD (Most late model Apples) ................. C **
or
** Boot from a specific SCSI ID #.(#=SCSI ID number)......
CMD-OPT-SHIFT-DELETE-# **
Zap PRAM .............................................. CMD-OPT-P-R
Disable Extensions .................................... SHIFT
Rebuild Desktop ....................................... CMD-OPT
Close finder windows.(hold just before finder starts).. OPT
Boot with Virtual Memory off........................... CMD
Trigger extension manager at boot-up................... SPACE
Force Quadra av machines to use TV as a monitor........ CMD-OPT-T-V
Boot from ROM (Mac Classic only)....................... CMD-OPT-X-O
Force PowerBooks to reset the screen................... R
Force an AV monitor to be recognized as one............ CMD-OPT-A-V
Eject Boot Floppy...................................... Hold Down Mouse Button
(copied from Trying to get an old LCII to boot up. - Apple Community)
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Hope this helps,
Keith
On Monday, 31 December 2018, 06:48:25 GMT, Marcus Smith
<[email protected]> wrote:
So.. Mine has 10 MB of RAM, 40 MB HDD. Last night, I made floppies of the
7.5.3 update (14 of them) using my beige G3. I installed them on the LCII. I
had to delete some stuff because the installer wanted 15MB of free space to
proceed. The installation went fine, but I have the same issue - no extension
manager, appearance, control strip, etc.. Either something is messed up from
the original installation that has carried through, or.. something.. Anyway...
The sad news is that all of those floppy ejections killed my floppy drive's
ability to eject (now just makes a weird noise). I have another floppy drive on
the way as well as a 160MB HDD. I'll just re-do the entire thing from scratch.
I also have a SCSI CD ROM for the LC II - still waiting for a SCSI cable for
that. I also have a burner for my G3 coming so I can make CDs for the LC II.
Can the LC II boot from an external CD ROM?
Anyway.. I'm starting to spend waaay to much money on these old computers. Why?
Because I think it's fun! Whee!
On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 7:12 PM Paul Mccorkle <[email protected]> wrote:
You could boot from an external scsi2sd, that would work.
On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 3:58 PM 'Keith Jamison' via Vintage Macs
<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm with Paul. I've only ever seen 7.5.3 as a large archive of multiple
images. Each image can be transferred on a single floppy but you need to have
them all to extract the installation information. That should extract to a
single file of about 20MB. A 40MB HDD is probably too small especially if you
have an OS on the disk as well as applications etc.
According to MacTracker, 7.5 requires a minimum of 4MB RAM and 21MB of hard
drive space. Your LC II has a minimum of 2MB RAM and can have a maximum of 10MB
RAM.
I think your 40MB drive isn't big enough for the installation.
Even if you have 22MB of free space, the Mac has to move things into position
before the new OS can go live. It also requires somewhere to store that 21MB
installation file while it transfers files and components for the OS update.
Maybe consider this.
Clone your 40MB drive to a ZIP disk if possible. Copy the full 7.5 installation
to the Zip disk. Boot the LC II using the ZIP as the start up disk. Install the
7.5 on the Zip disk and this should preserve your applications and files
through the upgrade.
When you are happy, Clone your ZIP back to the 40MB drive and it should be the
full 7.5.
Just a thought.
Hope you get it sorted,
Keith
On Sunday, 30 December 2018, 12:20:07 GMT, Paul Mccorkle
<[email protected]> wrote:
try reinstall? Never heard of this before.
http://igsi.tripod.com/mac/index753.htm
On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 1:14 AM Marcus Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
I got a Macintosh LC II that came with System 7.0.1. I Found a copy of System
7.5 online that came in the form of 7 floppy images that I had to jump through
some hoops to make into actual floppies. I installed 7.5, and everything works
fine. However, to my mind it is missing a number of things, such as extension
manager (and some other minor things I can't recall right now). Is it possible
the installer didn't install everything based on my hard disk size or something
(40 MB)? Any ideas?
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