At 10:37 -0400 on 03/08/02, william ahearn wrote:

>a 7.5 boot disk. I'm not even sure if there was a pure
>PPC version of 7.x.x with the exception of 7.1.2 and
>maybe 7.6.x. It isn't until the iMac era that

And even those only had a few PPC-specific parts.  7.1.2, for instance, was
virtually unchanged from 7.1 except for the PowerPC Enabler they added.
There's nearly zero PPC code in any Mac OS until 8.x.

>install. The earlier Macs give a lot more lee-way. I
>have a 68k 7.6  disk tools that will boot an SE/30 but
>7.6 won't install on a stock SE/30.

See what version the System is on the boot disk.  I bet it's not actually 7.6 :)
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