On 14/03/2005, at 9:36 AM, Reg Whitely wrote:
Hi Wamuggers
I've offered to help a teacher by setting up 2 older PPC 580s to run
some CDROM based ed software. The computers run quite nicely on OS
7.6.1 however the CDROMs require OS 8 or 9. The CDROMs won't boot on
the machine, throwing up an error -192 and/or message similar to "Mac
Start failed to load".
I've found a great error code resource at
http://www.rustle.com/mac/system8.html#aec.targ which says" -192
resNotFound Resource not found". (I gave my Sad Macs, Bombs and Other
Disasters Book to my daughter, thinking I wouldn't be needing it now
I've got OS X!)
Presumably, correct me if I'm wrong, Mac Start is looking for some
form of system software from OS 8 that is not in OS 7. I've got an OS
8.1 disk which I could load onto the 580s but there is not enough hard
drive space on them to do so.
A bit of guessing here ......
Is it that the software on the CDR needing OS8.1
or is it only that the CDR needs OS8 in order to run ?
Have you tried replacing the Apple CD extension with the later version ?
Should be able to find it on the OS8 CD using Tomeviewer ! ?
and I guess you are saying that the OS8 system software takes too much
hard disk space if it is used as a replacement for 7.6
Bob
I'm loath to delete the ed software on them to make room for
unnecessary system stuff and certainly don't want to upgrade any
hardware. Is there a workaround? Is it possible to install the
components of OS 8 needed to run the CDROMs without totally updating
to 8.1? If so, what would I need to install? It would be nice for the
kids to have these extra learning resources in their classroom at NO
cost.
I've looked at the picle's website http://macfaq.org/ which I've used
before to do a similar trick with OS 7.1 - 7.5 on LC475s but can't
find anything to help. Lowendmac http://www.lowendmac.com/ also
doesn't seem to have any info.
Old Macs never die. They just get braver.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Regards
Reg
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