Turns out it was booting from a CD in the drive the entire time! Now that 8.1 is properly installed I have all the options I need.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:42 PM, 'Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs < [email protected]> wrote: > Easier just to do a fresh install. IIRC the 8.1 install (at least the > universal CD-ROM) actually installs 8.0 followed immediately by the 8.1 > update. > > 8.6 CD's do that too, so do some of the 9.x discs. The part I don't like > about how those work is you can go through the options for a custom install > but it's pointless because with the updater there are no options, they all > install *everything* so then you have to go into the System folder to > delete extensions, control panels, printer drivers etc. for hardware the > computer doesn't have. > > The only choice you get that has any effect (through 8.1) is whether you > want to install for 68K or PPC only or both. The updaters do no checking to > see what components are already installed nor do they check the hardware to > see what is *not* needed. That is how "It Just Works" came about, install > all of the OS and of course it will work on any Mac supporting that OS > version. :P Nevermind it uses up a bunch of space and slows down booting > while useless extensions and control panels try to load. At least the ones > provided by Apple were made to fail to load silently and invisibly, without > causing a crash while booting. > > Could be someone tried to make your Mac boot as fast as possible and went > a bit overboard on tossing out the "extra" items. > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* V. Sigma <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 30, 2016 9:28 PM > *Subject:* Re: Software question > > I don't believe so, I essentially have nothing except Finder and AppleTalk. > > On Aug 30, 2016 11:26 PM, "'Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > You need an 8.1 install CD-ROM and Tome Viewer to open the install tomes > and extract the extensions and control panels that are missing. If 8.1 is > what your Mac originally shipped with, you might find an image file of the > CD ROM at macintoshgarden.org or macintoshrepository.org > > Before you do that, do you have Extensions Manager? Could be someone > disabled a bunch of stuff with it. > > -- > -- > ----- > 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 vintage-macs+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > 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 subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/vintage-macs/rYDAjNojT4o/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- ----- 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 subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
