On Sep 15, 2005, at 7:04 PM, Andrew Kershaw wrote:
I need the control panel and extension panel for the newertech 167
cpu also how do i install a system on the hdd when i have no
external cd rom (can it be done).
Congratulations on the 550c! I've always wanted one of those...
The 550c has ethernet. IIRC, the Mac OS 8 CD would allow access to
AppleTalk networks (either over serial ports or over Ethernet).
So, if you've got a second Mac w/ a CD-ROM drive, it would be easy
to set up a simple network to install whichever version of the OS
you want to install.
There is no Appletalk software on the target system to allow this, so
this won't work quite like this.
There IS a networking boot floppy image buried in Apple's archives.
The readme is here
<http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/
Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/Utilities/
Network_Access_Disk_7.5.txt>
The file is in the same directory.*
It allows network access via the printer port only, so if you're
going to install OS 8 this way, it'll easily be an overnight job, and
still don't know if it'll work.
Worth a try, though. boot up the 550c with it, mount the 550c on the
host system, see if OS 8 will install from there.
The only other way to do this is to find another Mac with a SCSI
port, and use a SCSI Disk-mode cable on the 550 to mount it as a
drive on the other system. Install OS X for "any Mac" if the host
system is a PPC machine, otherwise you get an unbootable system.
Also, when it comes time to upgrade to 8.1 (which I suggest) copy the
8.i installer to the 550 and run it from there. The upgrade offers no
choice of systems to install to, it installs for whatever processor
the host system is. Run it from a PPC host, you get a PPC version of
8.1 on the system.
THAT'S why I installed OS 8 three times on my 540c ;-)
* Something that just struck me. I was wrestling with finding a bunch
of different driver s and updates for some of those OTHER kinds of
computers yesterday, and all the filenames are things like
SR34576A.exe and such.
How come NO OTHER company names their files in a human readable format?
I mean, you download video, sound and ethernet drivers from Gateway,
you get three folders labeled 65-8876, 92-4522, and 12-4709 or some
such. C'mon, Windows has supported 256 character file names for a
freakin' DECADE now, why are we still stuck in the damned 8.3 world?
Why do they have to go OUT OF THEIR WAY to make things difficult?
--
Bruce Johnson
"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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