On Sep 16, 2005, at 8:08 AM, Andrew Kershaw wrote:
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.
Bruce,
She said that there's a copy of the OS 8 install CD's system folder
on the hard drive. I guess I assumed she's booting from that.
Missed that part, oops.
If so, doesn't that system folder have AppleTalk and a subset of OT
installed? I'm pretty sure that when you boot from CD, you can
still access your AppleTalk network.
I'm not sure...I'd have to find my OS 8 CD, you may be right. The 8.6
CD boot folder does have Apple Enet, Appleshare and OT extensions.
But ISTR the last time I tried to boot a HD system from a copy of the
CD's System folder I got an error message, though I may be thinking
of the Disk tools boot floppy.
It's worth a try.
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Bruce Johnson
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