Re: What to do with IIcx?

Well, if you have the HD space, think about making it your backup (file) server. I don't know what Mac OS app you'd run, but if you get A/UX or a Linux or NetBSD running you can get some scheduled jobs going to repeatedy copy your latest files from your main machines(s) to it. Or make it an mp3 juk

Re: newbie

I took a good image that I have used in basilisk and vmac and "wrote" it to the drive using a disk utility. Something must have been lost in the translation. - Original Message - From: "Allan Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vintage Macs" Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 2:28 PM Subject: Re:

Re: newbie

Shouldn't matter. A Mac that can't find a bootable drive where it was expecting one will poll to see if it finds one elsewhere. For example, if your System Folder is hosed and you attach a Zip drive with a bootable Zip cartridge and then power up your Mac, you'll normally see the beginnings o

Re: newbie

What do you mean when you say it "has a image on it w/ system 7.3 or something like that"? What, literally, is on the external drive? Does it have the diskimage copied to it? (that won't work). Or did you (or someone else) take the diskimage and install it to the hard drive? (that should wo

Re: newbie

My Reply follows quote. On 05/05/2005 10:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >Hi, > >I think mopst likely the cause is that you didn't go into control >panel and switch your "startup disk". You might need to boot from >floppy and do that. :) > >Cheers! >>-Original Message- >>From: Vintage Macs

Re: newbie

Hi, I think mopst likely the cause is that you didnt go into control panel and switch your "startup disk". You might need to boot from floppy and do that. :) Cheers! -Original Message- From: Vintage Macs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric & Amy Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:34 PM

Re: newbie

Ok i have my external SCSI drive formatted and it has a image on it w/ system 7.3 or something like that. I disconnected the bad internal one and fired it up. but instead of the blinking disk w/ the question mark on it, now i get nothing. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by