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system 7.6 on 35 floppies!!

68kMLA PowerPC 19 posts Apr 8, 2008 to Apr 10, 2008
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#2 Tue, 8 Apr 2008 - 16:23 68kMLA
35?!?! That means Apple has no say that they cannot do Leopard on CDROM.

#3 Tue, 8 Apr 2008 - 18:39 68kMLA
thats very impressive hah! that would probably be the most annoying install process ever.

#4 Tue, 8 Apr 2008 - 19:24 68kMLA
A basic install of System 7.6 only requires 19 disks, plus another four to upgrade to System 7.6.1. And yes, I have done it.

Apple weren't the only ones creating huge installation disk sets. MS Office for Windows and Visual Studio came on even bigger sets.

#5 Tue, 8 Apr 2008 - 19:59 68kMLA
I had OS/2 on floppies once. There were a lot.

... that is all..

#6 Tue, 8 Apr 2008 - 21:49 68kMLA
Windows 95 came on something like 25 floppies. I've never tried to install it, but I do have a copy on floppy disks.

#7 Tue, 8 Apr 2008 - 21:56 68kMLA
35?!?! That means Apple has no say that they cannot do Leopard on CDROM.
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They won't do Leopard on CD for the reason that they don't want people with lower spec machines installing it. Every machine that meets the minimum requirements came with a DVD drive of some sort as standard. they had to do a CD release of Tiger because there were a lot of machines that met the minimum requirements that didn't have a DVD drive. My Digital Audio has a CD/RW, not a DVD_Ram, not a combo drive and definitely not a superdrive although I could install one of those if I had to. There is no reason to do a CD release since no CD drive is officially supported anymore.

#8 Tue, 8 Apr 2008 - 22:16 68kMLA
35?!?! That means Apple has no say that they cannot do Leopard on CDROM.
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They won't do Leopard on CD for the reason that they don't want people with lower spec machines installing it. Every machine that meets the minimum requirements came with a DVD drive of some sort as standard.
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My Power Mac G4 goes below the mimimum requirements, and it has a DVD drive. In fact, I think it came as standard on the machine. DVD drives have existed on Macs since the beige G3. Just trying to make a point...
#9 Tue, 8 Apr 2008 - 22:29 68kMLA
I once saw a set of Office 97 floppies. I think there were 39 of them. Could be mistaken but it was about that number.

#10 Tue, 8 Apr 2008 - 22:37 68kMLA
35?!?! That means Apple has no say that they cannot do Leopard on CDROM.
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They won't do Leopard on CD for the reason that they don't want people with lower spec machines installing it. Every machine that meets the minimum requirements came with a DVD drive of some sort as standard. they had to do a CD release of Tiger because there were a lot of machines that met the minimum requirements that didn't have a DVD drive. My Digital Audio has a CD/RW, not a DVD_Ram, not a combo drive and definitely not a superdrive although I could install one of those if I had to. There is no reason to do a CD release since no CD drive is officially supported anymore.
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The original Xserve had only a CD-ROM drive.

http://support.apple.com/specs/xserve/Xserve.html

I believe it is supported under Leopard/Leopard Server.

Kinda weak, I know. Every other Mac could read DVDs though.

#11 Tue, 8 Apr 2008 - 22:37 68kMLA
35?!?! That means Apple has no say that they cannot do Leopard on CDROM.
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They won't do Leopard on CD for the reason that they don't want people with lower spec machines installing it. Every machine that meets the minimum requirements came with a DVD drive of some sort as standard.
Click to expand...
My Power Mac G4 goes below the mimimum requirements, and it has a DVD drive. In fact, I think it came as standard on the machine. DVD drives have existed on Macs since the beige G3. Just trying to make a point...
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What hes saying is, if my Mac can officially support Leopard, there is no reason to use CDs.

#12 Wed, 9 Apr 2008 - 02:35 68kMLA
There was NT3.51 on floppies too, and I think it included alpha/mips/ppc/x86.

#13 Wed, 9 Apr 2008 - 03:08 68kMLA
35?!?! That means Apple has no say that they cannot do Leopard on CDROM.
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They won't do Leopard on CD for the reason that they don't want people with lower spec machines installing it. Every machine that meets the minimum requirements came with a DVD drive of some sort as standard.
Click to expand...
My Power Mac G4 goes below the mimimum requirements, and it has a DVD drive. In fact, I think it came as standard on the machine. DVD drives have existed on Macs since the beige G3. Just trying to make a point...
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What hes saying is, if my Mac can officially support Leopard, there is no reason to use CDs.
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Correct, although I wasn't aware the Xserve came with only a CD originally. it makes sense though because DVD is mostly for watching/burning movies which an Xserve probably wouldn't have been called on to do. Most apps were still available on CD. Every G4/G5 or Intel machine from the 867mhz QS onwards did come with at least a combo drive as standard. The same with the G4 Powerbooks and iBooks. Some earlier machines like the 733mhz Digital Audio had them and the B&W had DVD RAM drives, but those aren't supported machines anymore.

#14 Wed, 9 Apr 2008 - 08:15 68kMLA
Couldn't you get OS 8.0 on floppies from Apple? I think they were special ordered. I may have a floppy restore set for 8.0 somewhere... I know I have a set for 7.6. I don't think there were retail floppies for these, though.

#15 Wed, 9 Apr 2008 - 13:41 68kMLA
i´d love to get a copy of the 7.6 images. (the 8.0 ones would be cool too ;) )

would you mind making an external backup of the images of your floppies on one of the servurz of the interwebs franklinstein? ;)

#16 Wed, 9 Apr 2008 - 14:41 68kMLA
the 7.6 floppy images are on the 7.6 CD, at least on mine. Its in a folder called Disk Images in one of the folders.

-digital ;)

#17 Wed, 9 Apr 2008 - 19:51 68kMLA
the 7.6 floppy images are on the 7.6 CD, at least on mine. Its in a folder called Disk Images in one of the folders.
-digital ;)
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true, checked mine

Couldn't you get OS 8.0 on floppies from Apple? I think they were special ordered. I may have a floppy restore set for 8.0 somewhere... I know I have a set for 7.6. I don't think there were retail floppies for these, though.
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true, checked, the Mac OS 8 box and found 3.5" High Density Disk Set Order Form

http://shrani.si/f/3Q/2t/2kpdo8Sd/p4090011.jpg

#18 Wed, 9 Apr 2008 - 23:23 68kMLA
I have installed Windows 95 from floppy before, followed by Office 95 on floppy as well.

The whole process took slightly less then 1/2 of a day to complete.

#19 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 - 05:05 68kMLA
And I thought it was bad when I upgraded to System 7...

I remember being in shock when I found out there were SIX floppies for the HD install of 7.0.1 way back in 1992. (I waited until that summer to upgrade to make sure all the bugs were worked out).

Man, I feel old writing that...there are people on here who weren't even alive yet in 1992!

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