How should I go about formating the internal hard drive? I have an external with a bootable copy of 7.0.0. It recognizes the 84s internal hd but I'm not sure how to format the disc.
Sorry for all the noob questions. -RA Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:04:48 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IIsi --- On Fri, 12/10/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > So after putting 7.5.3 on floppies > and inserting disc one I should have the computer load some > sort of gui instead of the grey screen I'm getting now? No. They don't work that way. It would be much easier if Apple provided 7.5.3 on uncompressed, individual floppy images, but they don't. You have to have some other method of booting the Mac, formatting the hard drive then copying all 19 parts of the 7.5.3 image to one folder on the hard drive and decoding them from MacBinary. It's a classic chicken and egg problem. Read 1.1.6 - How can I get an OS on a Mac using only my PC? http://macfaq.org/software/macos.shtml A very very useful accessory for old Macs is an external SCSI Zip 100 drive. Once you have that with a disk in it and the 19 part 7.5.3 self mounting image mounted on your Mac's Desktop, you can copy everything from the SMI to a Zip disk. You can also install the System to the same Zip disk and use it to boot old Macs and install from it to internal hard drive. Once you have one old Mac up and running it's much easier to get the second (and more!) running. If you get an even older Mac that only has a 400K or 800K floppy drive you either need another running Mac or someone has to "seed" your startup by mailing you a bootable 400K or 800K floppy. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
