Recent content by wunjee

Yeah I may go back and reinstall System 7, but 8.6 is working okay. The only reason I chose 8.6 was because I saw there was still a reasonably-modern web browser that required 8.6+ but I found out the ethernet adapter I had set aside for this is PCI and not NuBus, so getting this one on the...

I got it finally. I just had to find a bootable 8.6 disk. This is the image I used. Burned from a PC with Imgburn at 2x. The Disk Setup on 8.6 immediately saw the SD card and I made a single 2gb partition and another to take up the remaining space. 8.6 installed on the 2gb partition with no...

So I burned an 8.6 CD with imgburn. Burned it at 2x. When I put it in the Mac it starts to boot off the CD (happy Mac icon, can hear the disk spinning up) then about 10 seconds later it ejects the disk and goes to the [?] floppy. I tried burning an 8.5 disk and it wouldn't even attempt to boot...

I've got an iso for OS 8.6, which is apparently the last OS the 5260/100 officially supported. Maybe I'll burn that and give it a shot. Do I have to do anything special beside burn it at low speed if I'm making the disk on a PC?

Thanks for the reply! This is the adapter I'm using. Apparently it's hard-set to master, so I shouldn't have a problem there. The comments state that others have used it successfully with old IDE Macs. I actually think it's the card. I've gotten it to the point where Drive Setup will see the SD...

Well, a bit of an update. I did get my CDROM working. Pulled it out and sprayed the contacts down with some alcohol and away it went. It's unfortunate how brittle the plastics are, though. You can't do much of anything without destroying something... Anyway, when I boot off the system CD and...

Good evening! So, recently I pulled my old 5260/100 out of the garage. This was my first computer. My parents bought it for me when I was 13 for my birthday and I've held onto it all this time. It's got the full 64mb RAM and at some point we upgraded it to the 1.2TB HDD from the 800MB drive. I...