Hi folks,
This OldWorld-maschine doesn't want to boot the floppies, I'm trying to feed
it with.
There are various floppies I have tried, e.g. the woody and sarge boot
floppies and the floppies of the rc2 of the debian installer.
The only floppy, that gives me some kind of feedback is the
boot-
Hi Holger,
Thanks for your reply.
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:36 pm, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hmmm... this is the woody floppy and it should work, I guess this might by
> a floppy media issue -> try another floppy.
Well, I went to Staples and got me a new set of floppies that even have a two
Hello Felipe,
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 05:08 pm, Felipe Fonseca wrote:
> I managed to install woody on a 8600 using BootX on MacOS 8.
Sorry to tell you, but I can't go the BootX way. I don't have a MacOS version
which works on that maschine, and I'm not really into filesharing and stuff.
Hello Holger,
On Thursday 24 February 2005 11:12 am, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > That's how I did it for all floppies. cmp can't find any difference. But
> > the images just don't get recognized by the Macintosh to be bootable.
>
> might be, that you mac drive has some problems reading floppies writt
On Thursday 24 February 2005 08:29 pm, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> Old floppy drives, especially if infrequently used, get really dusty
> inside. This interferes with reading.
Thanks, you got a point there. I always thought the other way round, that my
own floppy drives didn't do what they were suppose
Hello vinai
On Friday 25 February 2005 03:38 pm, vinai wrote:
> And I
> don't think it's a problem with the floppy drive itself - I put in the
> floppies in MacOS 9, and they showed up on the desktop and I was able to
> see the kernel file on the disk.
Don't be so sure about that. After I install
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