>From my personal experience, OS 8.1 will install fine on a regular HFS
drive.
There are certain Mac *computers* that will not boot from an HFS+ drive,
which is what you may be thinking of.
- Original Message - From: "David Bell"
> On top of the suggestions made so far, I seem to recall
> My previous reply should have gone further, but you'll
> understand that
> I'm going from memory now. My understanding is that, in order to run
> 8.1, the OS has to be installed on to an HFS+
> formatted drive - end of story. If your machine can't start
> up from an
> HFS+ drive, then you ca
netbsd works fine on a quadra 650 and a quadra 840av with a 36 gig 10k
rpm disk scsiit is an os thing i can only have a 4 ish gig partition
in 7.5.3 when i had 7.5.3 on the quadra 840av
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Don
wrote:
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 04 23:25:52 -0500
> From: Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Repl
>I came across a similar problem fairly recently when I was in the
>position of donating old kit to a local charity. The hard drive simply
>seemed to have "stuck". All I did was to haul the hard drive out of the
>box, hold it in the palm of one hand and give it a bloody good slap
>with the othe
Sorry Russ
My previous reply should have gone further, but you'll understand that
I'm going from memory now. My understanding is that, in order to run
8.1, the OS has to be installed on to an HFS+
formatted drive - end of story. If your machine can't start up from an
HFS+ drive, then you can't
On top of the suggestions made so far, I seem to recall that 8.1 would
only run on HFS+ formatted hard drives - remember the stuff about
"Where have all my files gone?"
Are you sure you haven't ended up with an HFS+ formatted drive? Looks
like OS 7.6.1 would be your best bet from where I'm sit
>Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:11:59 -0800
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Hi all.
>
>I have a Performa 636 who's hard disk failed (finally). It had OS 7.5.3 =
>on
>it. I replaced it with the smallest IDE drive I had - a 13 GB Quantum
>Fireball, but OS 7.5.x woul
Hi
I came across a similar problem fairly recently when I was in the
position of donating old kit to a local charity. The hard drive simply
seemed to have "stuck". All I did was to haul the hard drive out of the
box, hold it in the palm of one hand and give it a bloody good slap
with the other
Everything you need is here
http://mac.the-underdogs.org/
On Feb 11, 2004, at 10:46 PM, Mark Koan wrote:
setting up a mac for a chess player;hoping to find
freeware but interested in opions on vintage chess
progams for these machines.
Also, what are the most common classic games that run
well on
Hi,
I'm new to the list (although I've been browsing the archives etc. for
some time now) and am starting right off with a "PLEASE HELP"
message...
The other day I tried to boot a Quadra 950 which has been sitting
(unplugged & unused) under my desk for 2-3 years now. When I power it
up, I got the
Much thanx to everyone who responded. Snood is really
quite subtle. On the Exachess, what a remarkable
program for free! But how do you Castle?
> ExaChess Lite - Freeware
>
> http://www.exachess.com/files/exachess-lite-21.sit
> (not sure if this runs on 68k)
>
___
> On Behalf Of Paul Stamsen
> But did you try the option to partition the bigger drive? I
> always did that with my P630. I believe the articles pretty
> much supported smaller partitions.
That didn't occur to me; I'll give it a try next.
> What other diagnostics have you tried? Check all
>
About [q]Performa 636 & MacOS 8.1, at 22:11pm -0800 on 2/13/04, Russ Gibson stated:
> Hi all.
>
> I have a Performa 636 who's hard disk failed (finally). It had OS 7.5.3 on
> it. I replaced it with the smallest IDE drive I had - a 13 GB Quantum
> Fireball, but OS 7.5.x wouldn't initialize the d
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