Rockin' Kat
Well-known member
...any more circles, and I think I'm going to flip out.
SoI have a IIfx, with a radius video card, 128MB of RAM, a 4.xxGB, a 300e CD rom drive and a black terminator outside, and what I guess is some kind of filter on the SCSI cable inside... and two new PRAM batteries from Radio Shack.
I've got a set of install disks for OS 7.6. I've also got a non-bootable install CD for OS 7.5.3... and I have a floppy with a patched copy of Drive Setup 1.5 which is patched for third-party drives...... I've also got OS 6.08 install disks, and 7.1 install disks.... but those two are too old to use drive setup.
the 7.6 disks boot up to an installer and will not let me load the patched drive setup.
Someone on the vintage Macs list at LEM gave me a link to a page full of links to bootable disk images.... but from that page everything that strikes me as possibly being what I need seems to result in one of three outcomes:
1)Disk boots, but the computer hangs when I try to open the patched Drive Setup 1.5 (this happened with OS 7.1.2 disks that actually booted)
2)Disk fails to boot and either ejects, or brings up the chimes of death with a dead Mac and some inane error message.
3)The download link is broken because either files are deleted, server is gone, ftp access is denied, or the server gives a weird error for all directories with no real explanation.
:?:
I'm not sure what I'm going to do now. What am I doing... I don't know what I'm doing.
SoI have a IIfx, with a radius video card, 128MB of RAM, a 4.xxGB, a 300e CD rom drive and a black terminator outside, and what I guess is some kind of filter on the SCSI cable inside... and two new PRAM batteries from Radio Shack.
I've got a set of install disks for OS 7.6. I've also got a non-bootable install CD for OS 7.5.3... and I have a floppy with a patched copy of Drive Setup 1.5 which is patched for third-party drives...... I've also got OS 6.08 install disks, and 7.1 install disks.... but those two are too old to use drive setup.
the 7.6 disks boot up to an installer and will not let me load the patched drive setup.
Someone on the vintage Macs list at LEM gave me a link to a page full of links to bootable disk images.... but from that page everything that strikes me as possibly being what I need seems to result in one of three outcomes:
1)Disk boots, but the computer hangs when I try to open the patched Drive Setup 1.5 (this happened with OS 7.1.2 disks that actually booted)
2)Disk fails to boot and either ejects, or brings up the chimes of death with a dead Mac and some inane error message.
3)The download link is broken because either files are deleted, server is gone, ftp access is denied, or the server gives a weird error for all directories with no real explanation.
:?:
I'm not sure what I'm going to do now. What am I doing... I don't know what I'm doing.