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Could be an intermittent floppy drive. With how much dust there was, I wouldn’t be surprised if the heads were dirty.
Great choice. This should make your life a lot easier.I ordered a ZuluSCSI Mini from Rabbit Hole.
There are only two sources of OS images I trust, Apple's Legacy Recovery CD, and Apple's Mac OS Anthology DVDs. Both are available on Mac Garden. There are a couple of images on Legacy Recovery which are wrong I think (but most of them work) - so the Anthology ones are the most reliable.@joshc I have been downloading images wherever Google finds them. Searching for "mac 68k boot disk" or "mac 68k disk image" helps.
Assuming your using the 7.5 floppy you talked about, the second error means that there are no system files it recognizes to boot from. Error 41 means that Finder is missing on the disk. As for the 4th one I do not know.
I ordered a ZuluSCSI Mini from Rabbit Hole. If I can boot from an image on the Mini then I know my main issue here has been with the floppy drive.
Joshc - the Anthology DVDs are a mess, 7.1 and 7.1.1 are missing the Fonts disk, 7.6.1, 8.0 and 8.1 are HFS+ meaning you can't use them from an older OS than 8.1!There are only two sources of OS images I trust, Apple's Legacy Recovery CD, and Apple's Mac OS Anthology DVDs.
Maybe I've got them mixed up and it's the Legacy Recovery ones which are OK? I remember the thing about 7.1 missing the Fonts disk but I thought that was a problem on Legacy Recovery.Joshc - the Anthology DVDs are a mess, 7.1 and 7.1.1 are missing the Fonts disk, 7.6.1, 8.0 and 8.1 are HFS+ meaning you can't use them from an older OS than 8.1!
There are other things as well but I forget. I've been meaning to do a tidied up version.
I don't think I've ever looked at the legacy recovery disk/s. I was working from the Anthology DVDs, but forget which release.Maybe I've got them mixed up and it's the Legacy Recovery ones which are OK? I remember the thing about 7.1 missing the Fonts disk but I thought that was a problem on Legacy Recovery.
Joshc - the Anthology DVDs are a mess, 7.1 and 7.1.1 are missing the Fonts disk, 7.6.1, 8.0 and 8.1 are HFS+ meaning you can't use them from an older OS than 8.1!
There are other things as well but I forget. I've been meaning to do a tidied up version.
Edit : 7.1.2 is the PPC version, it will update the 68k version of 7.1, but will only do clean installs to PPC.
I can double check, but I'm fairly sure the version I'm talking about installs on PPC and updates 68k, like I said. Faff to check because I only have one machine that supports 7.1.2 PPC and isn't an upgraded 68k.Small correction on 7.1.2, there are three separate versions. One is PPC, one is 68k, one is Performa specific. The 68k one indeed will only act as an update, it won't do a clean install. The Performa specific builds will only work on the Performa for which they are intended. The same is true of the PPC version, it will only install on the models for which it was intended. The best version of 7.1.2 68k to work with is on the Legacy Recovery CD. If you try to use the 7.1.2 PPC version on anything but the models of PPC it is intended for, it will just outright not install due to installer limitations. The same is true for 7.1.2 68k Performa.
Also, just recently, I was able to prove that 7.1.2 68k and 7.1.2p 68k are different versions of the same OS. So 7.1.2 68k is its own discreet entity, unlike what is widely believed.
I am a rabid 7.1.2 68k evangelist...
I can double check, but I'm fairly sure the version I'm talking about installs on PPC and updates 68k, like I said. Faff to check because I only have one machine that supports 7.1.2 PPC and isn't an upgraded 68k.
The Anthology disks.Do you know where you got it? I've never seen an installer like that.
It says it is version 3.4.4 of the installer, but file size-wise, be aware that it is the British localised version.Jan 24, 1994? I'm honestly amazed that it works on 68k. The Jan 1994 release of 7.1.2 is the PPC release.
The 68k release was Jun 22, 1994.
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This is quite interesting. Even the sizes of the anticipated installs are different.
I appreciate your effort with regard to this discussion. I have learned something I wasn't aware of before regarding the 7.1.2 installers.
It says it is version 3.4.4 of the installer, but file size-wise, be aware that it is the British localised version.
That era is a complicated mess. There are versions of the OS with the same version number and different versions of the finder. I think, but might be confused, that I saw early 7.5.x installer CDs with the boot System 7.5.x and Finder 7.1.2, others with 7.1.3 and multiple files sizes and created dates for Finder 7.1.2... version control was past the Info box versioning.
It's the same in the US folder, I just made my own CD of the British versions and so have it to hand.They chose the British version for the anthology? That is an odd choice.