Performa 6200 and MacOS 9.0

[manolopm]

Hi:

I have this machine with an MacOS 7.5.5 installed. I got the original installation disk of a MacOS 9 and I'm trying to install (or upgrade or something) the machine.

When I put the disc in the cdrom it loads... appears a nice logo of MacOS 9 and load the system. But when I run the install program says:

"This program cannot run on your computer. See the documentation for more information"



I've been looking into documentation, I look into compatibility chart from Apple and I don't know why It doesn't work.

Any idea? help? anything?

 

[Gil]

Are you sure it's 9.0 and not 9.2 or 9.2.2?

 

[porter]

"This program cannot run on your computer. See the documentation for more information"

As the quote says!

I run 8.6 on my 6200, that's the top for this machine, similar with the 6100.

I also run Debian Woody on mine and that works with my PDS ethernet.

I could go on about how the 603e is missing some atomic machine instructions for swapping word data that are critical for multiprocessing, but would you be interested?

 

[LCGuy]

How much RAM does it have? I'm thinking it may be happening because you may not have enough RAM. OS 9 requires at least 24 as a bare minimum, IIRC. (though it will be SLOW)

 

[manolopm]

MackAttack94: I'm really sure that it's a 9.0 (it's written on the CD).

Porter: Yes I'm interested. I'm interested too about how you install Woody, I tried with Potato for PPC with no success.

LCGuy:

Memory: 40 Mb

HD: 37.5 Gb

I thought that the problem was the upgrade procedure, so I change the HD and the same result.

Thanks to all

 

[porter]

Porter: Yes I'm interested. I'm interested too about how you install Woody, I tried with Potato for PPC with no success.

It was black magic with two kernels, installation CDROMS and the MkLinux booter.

Have you tried http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/

 

[wally]

...I got the original installation disk of a MacOS 9...

On your Mac OS 9 installation disk, in the Utilities folder is there a 5xxx/6xxx Tester 1.1 folder? If so, what happens when you run the 5xxx/6xxx Tester application?

 

[applefreak]

maximum os for the performa 6200 :

Mac Os 9.1

 

[Rodus]

9.1 will run on a 6200, I ran it on my 5200 - 40Mb for..oh..about 20 mins before the agonising speed made me switch down to 8.

Seriously mate, even the window opening speed was glacial, really don't bother.

 

[manolopm]

On your Mac OS 9 installation disk, in the Utilities folder is there a 5xxx/6xxx Tester 1.1 folder? If so, what happens when you run the 5xxx/6xxx Tester application?

No, no tester into utilities directory [] ]'>

 

[equill]

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA35668?viewlocale=en_US

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[Richard]

Are you sure it is a retail disc (with big orangy yellow 9 on disc) and not a machine-specific one? (iMac, iBook, PowerBook, Power Mac) The symptoms sound a lot like when you use a machine-specific 9 disc on an old world mac.

 

[Gil]

You do realize that this thread is almost a year old, right?

 

[Richard]

But I felt as if I knew the solution, I had to say something.