7.5.3 Disc wants floppies.

[Gil]

So i was going to install System 7.5.3 on my Performa. I downloaded all the parts, and burned the image to a CD. I booted the Performa with a Disk Tools diskette, loaded the install program from the CD, checked my installation options, but it wants me to insert a floppy disk. Why is it doing this if everything it needs is on the CD?

 

[equill]

You may have a problem with the CD or with the files for installation.

The CD should be CD-R (not CD-RW), burnt at low speed (1x), and using the HFS (not HFS+) file system.

The downloadable System 7.5.3 is, unusually, in the form of a divided image, labelled as an 'img' and 'parts'. These need to be decoded and expanded into floppy disk images contained within a single folder. The folder can be on your desktop or on a CD, just as you are attempting to do, so that Installer 'knows' and can 'see' that all required parts are available. Did Installer show you a line of animated floppy disk icons in the installation progress window when the installation had begun? As Installer finishes with each 'floppy', the line of icons advances to the left in the familiar fashion.

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[Gil]

I did burn at a low speed in standard HFS. I downloaded all the images, decompressed the first file, and put the contents of that on the CD. It did not get to the picture of the animated floppy disks.

 

[benjgvps]

When I installed 7.5.3 on my PowerBook 145B this weekend, I had to expand ALL the files for it to work, I personally recommend .bin over .hqx too.

 

[equill]

... These (emphasis added) need to be decoded and expanded into floppy disk images contained within a single folder ...

... I had to expand ALL the files for it to work ...

... decompressed the first file, and put the contents of that on the CD ...

Therein, I suspect, may lie the problem. The 'package' for the files should not normally matter. Binhex is notionally safer in that the files do not have their resource forks exposed during transmission, because they are effectively 'text' files.

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