Need help installing System 7 on a Quadra 700

[Johnnya101]

Hello,

Finally am cleaning up my Quadra 700. It never had a hard drive when I bought it, so I put in an old Quantum I had laying around.

I'm trying to install 7.1... and I can't figure out how to successfully.

1. I made a disk tools disk that was bootable. Booted to that and created two partitions on the hard drive. HD 1 and 2. I then copied the disk contents to HD 2.

2. Restarted Q700. Booted to HD 2.

3. Insert InstallMeFirst disk.

4. Asks for Install 1. Insert. Copies some stuff.

5. Asks for InstallMeFirst. Then proudly displays the following.

A disk error has occured and installation cannot continue. Your disk may be damaged.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get past this point. I have tried using the files off the legacy recovery CD, I have downloaded complete universal 7.1 disk images, nothing is working. What do I need to do?

I've tried creating disks using only the images on the legacy recovery CD, gives an error. Tried using only the images I downloaded online, error. It's always at the exact same place, right after writing everything from disk 2. It asks for Install 1 and then gives the same error every time. Hard drive works fine, it had stuff on it before I erased it. Formats fine, etc.

 

[EvilCapitalist]

Even though the disk formats okay, have you checked it with good error checking software like Norton Disk Doctor or something similar?

I've never had any problems relating to installation that weren't related to bad installation media (bad disks or scratched disc) or bad hardware (using the wrong SCSI adapter on a PowerBook, bad HD, bad floppy drive, etc).  You should be able to install 7.1 without copying everything to diskettes as well.  I know I've downloaded the universal 7.1 install that's on the Garden (World Ready System 7.1 I want to say?) and when unstuffed it's just a bunch of folders that represent each of the individual disks.  Copied the folder containing the other folders to an external HD, booted from there and installed on my target HD without any problems.

 

[Johnnya101]

Hmm... Maybe it's the computer itself now. I just tried turning it on and it kept bombing at the minimal system folder that I copied from the disk at desktop... I then put in the bootable disk tools disk and it gave death chimes and error

0000000F

00007FFF

Could a bad floppy cause it do do that? What about a bad hard drive? It's kind of sounding like the logic board is bad now...

Unplugged hard drive and tried booting to the patched 7.5.3 he setup disk. It just ejects it.

Plugged hard drive back in (has the basic system folder and disk tools copied to it). It boots to the blank desktop plus a really wavy blank rectangular box in the middle of the screen. If I leave it alone for a minute it will stabilize. Upon reboot, sometimes it will be stable with a bomb and no other text . Does this sound like a bad hard drive? Logic board? It was booting fine an hour ago ... But now why are floppies causing sad Mac?

Woooo another edit.

Looked into it a bit and it seems like the hard drive was corrupted very badly somehow... I suppose it's finally kicked it. But why do I get a sad Mac when booting to a good disk?

Another edit

Turns out the floppy disk I was using to boot from was just super corrupted or damaged. Made another and it booted from it. The HD 1 partition had remnants of a failed installation on it, I'm guessing that why it's bombing, it's enough to boot it and it is missing other files.

I'm initializing the drive now with the patched setup utility. Maybe it will help.

 

[Johnnya101]

Got it working finally.

I reformatted all the disks and tried cleanly copying them. It worked! Now my Quadra is running 7.1 nicley.

 

[slomacuser]

Do "easy install" or "System Software for any Macintosh" otherwise Monitors control panel wont work.

This is from read me file:

INSTALLING SYSTEM 7.1 ON A MACINTOSH QUADRA 700 AND 950 

To install System 7.1 on a Macintosh Quadra, use the Installer program’s Easy Install option, or choose “System software for any Macintosh” in the Installer’s Customize window. If you use the Macintosh Quadra option in the Customize window, some parts of the Monitors control panel will not work correctly.

 

[Johnnya101]

Yup, saw that too on my working install.