Dear Fellow Compactors: (& please forgive me, for I am also posting this to the System 6 list)
After having seen my SE/30 20/230 boot up under 6.0.8 in 14 sec. flat, but wanting to be able to use all my RAM on the SE/30, it occurred to me to try the fabled 6.0.8L on my minty Performa 200 (aka Classic II) (owned-from-new, less than 800 hr. use on it since '93). I mean, I was thinking, "Boyo, with a 16mhz '030, it oughta be the swiftest 6.0.8 machine out there, excepting only the SE/30, and it's funky 10mb RAM limit won't really matter, since System 6 maxes at 8mb recognizable. Oughta be way better than, say, an SE or Classic 68000 8mhz on 6.0.8, & with System 6 Heaven showing the true way, I can get pretty close to my beloved 7.0.1 in functionality, but with blinding, System 6 speed!" (Sorta the Mac equivalent of my recently-acquired, low-dollar midlife-crisis car, an '89 Mazda MX6 Turbo with a really sweet punch in the low-to-mid-range band.) Well, anyway, that's what I was thinking. What the actual effort yielded was a refusal of the machine to boot from the 6.0.8L initial disk (the one that _isn't_ the "additions" disk); it would just eject the disk and try to find a system folder on the hard disk. I had downloaded the two 6.0.8L disk images from The System 6 Heaven link: (http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Balcony/4978/mac.html) I carefully DiskCopied them onto fresh floppies. I also tried the same thing for the version I obtained about a year ago from a generous soul who had bought a Classic II that actually came with the images on its hard drive. (I can't swear that the machine was actually _running_ on 6.0.8.L, but that was the impression I got from him when he attached the images to an email to me. Have long since lost his name & address or I'd ask him now.) The boot floppy shows it to be "z-6.0.8L", whatever that may mean. (I also noticed that the Sys.6 Heaven download link refers to 6.0.8L as being "for PB100, LC & LCII, Colour Classic only..." So, does this mean the P200/CII actually _can't_ run 6.0.8L, or am I just missing something? Any help or suggestions will be welcome. Thanks! -Lance -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Mac OS SW, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
