Re: PowerBook 1400cs & Mac OS 8

[Joe]

Well, the CD is a bit old and its been fumbled around a bit.  I'll get
TomeView(or whatever its called) and attempt to extract it.  If worse
comes to worse, I'll just copy it from my System 7.5.5 or Mac OS 9.2
installation.



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Re: PowerBook 1400cs & Mac OS 8

[Andrew Kershaw]

Well, I was just fumbling with the installer, and I found that the
Trackpad control panel is causing the problems. I got the system
installed, works great, the CD isnt machine specific. I know the error
you're referring to, but that's only if you don't dig deep enough. If
you go through the Full Install Pieces folder, the whole Mac OS 8
installer is there.
Well you learn something new every day!  I didn't know the workaround 
was _that_ easy...  I'm glad you got the installer working.  Can you 
now just unpack the Trackpad control panel from the Tome manually or 
is it totally corrupted?  It seems odd that a system installer would 
have that particular problem - you'd think Apple would have 
discovered that in testing...

Peace,
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Re: PowerBook 1400cs & Mac OS 8

[Joe]

Well, I was just fumbling with the installer, and I found that the
Trackpad control panel is causing the problems.  I got the system
installed, works great, the CD isnt machine specific.  I know the error
you're referring to, but that's only if you don't dig deep enough.  If
you go through the Full Install Pieces folder, the whole Mac OS 8
installer is there.



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Re: PowerBook 1400cs & Mac OS 8

[Dana Collins]

Hello Joe,
You have the wrong CD for your unit. OS Install CDs will generally come in
two flavors, retail versions (which recognizes all targeted units as
supported, and will install the OS on any of them), and machine-specific
versions, which are shipped with the unit, and are intended to be used only
for the target unit's model type (these CDs have an OS enabler of sorts in
their system folder that, iirc, communicate with the unit's ROM type to
establish recognition). Your CD is expecting a G3 unit - I am surprised that
you get as far as you do in the install process - most of my colleagues that
have tried your route usually receive an error message just after clicking
the install button.

Cast your net out over the swap-list, requesting a retail version of OS 8.1
to buy.
Best regards,
Dana
On 4/3/04 5:17 PM, Joe of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent

> I have a PowerBook 1400cs and a PowerMac G3 CD.  On the CD, there is the
> Full Install Pieces folder, and there is an installer.  When I do the
> Easy Install, the installer fails mid-way when it says "Finishing
> Installation...".  When I do a Custom Installation and choose Core
> System Software, the install goes perfectly, but the system is useless,
> as it has no functionality.  Is this a CD issue or an issue of a screwed
> up computer?
> 
> 


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PowerBook 1400cs & Mac OS 8

[Joe]

I have a PowerBook 1400cs and a PowerMac G3 CD.  On the CD, there is the
Full Install Pieces folder, and there is an installer.  When I do the
Easy Install, the installer fails mid-way when it says "Finishing
Installation...".  When I do a Custom Installation and choose Core
System Software, the install goes perfectly, but the system is useless,
as it has no functionality.  Is this a CD issue or an issue of a screwed
up computer?



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