atariangamer
Active member
So, I have a PB180 that was running 7.5.3 for awhile, but that didn't work out so well because of how slow it was. I had been told to try putting System 7 Pro on it, so just recently in a massive clean, I got everything back together for another try. I got the System 7 Pro disk images from when I was first working on it. I have them all written to floppies, but the install disk isn't bootable. I made the disk tools bootable by putting the 131 enabler in the system folder, but wasn't sure where to go from there. I tried a few things, but the most successful one ended in an installation error right near the end.
I've heard a few things now, one being that you need to install System 7.1 before installing the 7.1.1 pro on it, and another that the pro disks can install fresh. BUT, the only copy of the 180 disks that I could find are in a format I can't write. My only floppy drive computer is an old Sony Vaio desktop. The other is this Powerbook 180, but being as it's only got a floppy drive, its not quite useful either. I have a zip drive for scsi, but I haven't loaded a driver or even seen if the drive works still. It took me ages to extract and convert the Sys7Pro disks from a img.bin in a stuffit file into normal, PC writable .IMGs that actually work.
So, does anyone know the correct way to do this, or possibly have better images on the 7.1 install for PowerBooks?
I've heard a few things now, one being that you need to install System 7.1 before installing the 7.1.1 pro on it, and another that the pro disks can install fresh. BUT, the only copy of the 180 disks that I could find are in a format I can't write. My only floppy drive computer is an old Sony Vaio desktop. The other is this Powerbook 180, but being as it's only got a floppy drive, its not quite useful either. I have a zip drive for scsi, but I haven't loaded a driver or even seen if the drive works still. It took me ages to extract and convert the Sys7Pro disks from a img.bin in a stuffit file into normal, PC writable .IMGs that actually work.
So, does anyone know the correct way to do this, or possibly have better images on the 7.1 install for PowerBooks?