Mac OS 7.6.1

[Mithrandir]

Ok so i have decided to install 7.6.1 on my quadra 610. Since I don't have any cd caddies yet, I was forced to use the 19 =P floppy install. It was working great, each time I used a floppy it would ask to insert the next one. After the "Please insert Install 19" message was over, I stuck my floppy in until the computer was done with it. But now the computer says please insert disk "Untitled". I don't know what to do, as I only have the 19 install floppies, nothing else. I tried inserting a blank floppy named Untitled, and have tried inserting the install 1 disk again to no avail. What am I missing here lol? I turned the crt off, and will leave the machine running an hour or two more in case someone here knows a solution. If not, I might have to turn the quadra off and lose all of that time...

 

[FlyingToaster]

What if you named a disk untitled, put it in and see what it does?

 

[FlyingToaster]

Lol woops.

I tried inserting a blank floppy named Untitled

What about putting the install disk 1 contents on the untitled floppy

Edit#101 Btw I probably have no good advice but I know it's not fun throwing all that work in the can

 

[Mk.558]

Back when I only had about five disks to install 7.5.3, I tried that stunt.

If you copied the parts 1-19 onto 19 actual different disks, then you'll probably have to try again and reinstall.

If however you cheated like I did, where once the Installer was done with Disk 2, so you took Disk 2 and put the contents of Disk 3 on it, I hope you didn't do that with whatever Install Disk 1 was. If you did, you're gonna hafta install all over again. Install Disk 1 or whatever the first disk was to start the Installer must be kept alone -- just like Windows in the older days when it'd pull up the blue screen demanding that you insert disk with the serial number of _____-_____ be inserted.

EDIT: If you can install over the network via AFP, you can bypass the whole floppy shebang.

EDIT2: You can share the CD drive of another Mac over AFP. If your iMac G3 works fine, use that and share it over the network with Ethernet. If you don't have an AAUI to Ethernet transceiver, you might want to get one. LocalTalk is unbelievably slow compared to Ethernet.

 

[Mithrandir]

Thank you for your help as always MK. That is exactly what the problem was. Now I have to decide whether to try the install all over again with floppies tomorrow or wait for my cd caddies to arrive in the mail. At least now I know what the problem is. This time I'll use three floppies and leave the first one alone =).

 

[Mk.558]

If you have only three, you might want to seriously look at getting more. At least 10, more like 20.

It's always good to have a couple emergency restore disks, such as System 6 Emergency Network Access disks. I talk about those in the link in my sig for both 1440K and 800K formats.

Once again, I can't stress the importance of having a reliable network interface. As I said earlier, I'm not sure if you have Ethernet, the 610s only have AAUI, unless you have a NIC, if you don't have it you'd want to seriously look at it.

 

[spiceyokooko]

What I've always tended to do when installing Systems stored on a lot of floppy disks is to make disk images of them all either install them directly from a hard disk or across a network. Just mount them all on the desktop and away you go, given there's no floppy disk reading to do, it installs much faster.

Doing it this way has a number of benefits - it preserves your original floppy disks, it allows you to create exact duplicate sets of them at any time, it allows you to perform a much faster install from the disk images and you remove the problems of certain disks not being read properly and aborting the install etc.

It does take time of course to make the disk images in the first place, but it's an investment in time worth doing. You just never know when one of those floppys might become damaged or the floppy drive itself start playing up.

 

[protocol7]

Network installing from images is definitely the way to go. Even if it's just a localtalk connection, it still saves wear-and-tear and all that disk swapping.

 

[reekdaddy]

do you just need floppies? i have u haul boxes of floppies

everyone can pm me for floppies