Powerbook 5300 Operating Systems

[Tugboat]

So, in an attempt to revive my 5300ce I picked up a solid 5300c which I have made lead candidate for restoration (holding onto the working 5300ce logic board in case I need it in the future - if anyone out there wants to buy it, please make me an offer).  I have partitioned the SSD into three partitions, all formatted with HFS.  On one I have Mac OS 7.5.2, and on another i have Mac OS 8.1.  My question is as to the third partition, hopefully named "Mac OS 8.6."  Is it possible to format this single partition as HFS extended so that I can install Mac OS 8.6?  Your thoughts greatly appreciated.

 

[FacnyFreddy]

I have 7.6 and 8.1 on my 5300cs and 5300ce and they run just fine.

As far as suggestions, I would look at 8.5, but, I think 8.6 will require 30+ MB of RAM to be of any use. I had it working on my 5300ce with a full 64MB and SSD and is "acceptable", but, nearly as snappy as 7.6.

Regards...

 

[Tugboat]

Thank you.