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    PowerBook 1400 - problem to install OS 8

    Thank you, I am downloading OS 8.1 CD image and I will try to use the CF adapter to install the system !
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    PowerBook 1400 - problem to install OS 8

    Hello, thank you for all your explains. I have in fact an IDE USB adapter, at my mother's home, so I will can use it later. I don't knowed HFS Util packages. I have a CF PCMCIA adapter too, and a CF card, but the Powerbook is it capable to boot from it? Or need I use the tools floppy for copy...
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    PowerBook 1400 - problem to install OS 8

    Thank you for your answer, but I am sorry, this topic is useless. I have a bad copy of OS 8 floppy images. I have copied the System Folder from the Tools disk 2 to the HD, the Mac boot on it, but it can't read my install disk. So I will check an other copy, if possible readable from Linux...
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    PowerBook 1400 - problem to install OS 8

    Hello, I have a problem with my Powerbook 1400; when I have bougt it it was running Mac OS 9, so I have formatted the disk and I want to install OS 8 on it, with floppies because I don't have CD-R player for this laptop. So I have downloaded Mac OS 8 in .bin images, I have extracted all files...
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    Powerbook 1400 - disk locked

    Hello, I have found the solution on an other forum: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macint ... -mac-os-81 The second floppy tools have formated my hard drive!
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    Powerbook 1400 - disk locked

    Hello, I have bought a Powerbook 1400, running on Mac OS 9. I want to format it but I don't have the CD-ROM module, so I have download Mac OS 8, the last version on floppy disks. However, when I boot to the first install floppy I have the "welcome on Mac OS 8" screen, when only the "continue"...
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