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Performa 6200 and MacOS 9.0
Hi:
I have this machine with an MacOS 7.5.5 installed. I got the original installation disk of a MacOS 9 and I'm trying to install (or upgrade or something) the machine.
When I put the disc in the cdrom it loads... appears a nice logo of MacOS 9 and load the system. But when I run the install program says:
"This program cannot run on your computer. See the documentation for more information"
I've been looking into documentation, I look into compatibility chart from Apple and I don't know why It doesn't work.
Any idea? help? anything?
I have this machine with an MacOS 7.5.5 installed. I got the original installation disk of a MacOS 9 and I'm trying to install (or upgrade or something) the machine.
When I put the disc in the cdrom it loads... appears a nice logo of MacOS 9 and load the system. But when I run the install program says:
"This program cannot run on your computer. See the documentation for more information"
I've been looking into documentation, I look into compatibility chart from Apple and I don't know why It doesn't work.
Any idea? help? anything?
Are you sure it's 9.0 and not 9.2 or 9.2.2?
As the quote says!
I run 8.6 on my 6200, that's the top for this machine, similar with the 6100.
I also run Debian Woody on mine and that works with my PDS ethernet.
I could go on about how the 603e is missing some atomic machine instructions for swapping word data that are critical for multiprocessing, but would you be interested?
How much RAM does it have? I'm thinking it may be happening because you may not have enough RAM. OS 9 requires at least 24 as a bare minimum, IIRC. (though it will be SLOW)
MackAttack94: I'm really sure that it's a 9.0 (it's written on the CD).
Porter: Yes I'm interested. I'm interested too about how you install Woody, I tried with Potato for PPC with no success.
LCGuy:
Memory: 40 Mb
HD: 37.5 Gb
I thought that the problem was the upgrade procedure, so I change the HD and the same result.
Thanks to all
Porter: Yes I'm interested. I'm interested too about how you install Woody, I tried with Potato for PPC with no success.
LCGuy:
Memory: 40 Mb
HD: 37.5 Gb
I thought that the problem was the upgrade procedure, so I change the HD and the same result.
Thanks to all
It was black magic with two kernels, installation CDROMS and the MkLinux booter.
Have you tried http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/
On your Mac OS 9 installation disk, in the Utilities folder is there a 5xxx/6xxx Tester 1.1 folder? If so, what happens when you run the 5xxx/6xxx Tester application?
maximum os for the performa 6200 :
Mac Os 9.1
Mac Os 9.1
9.1 will run on a 6200, I ran it on my 5200 - 40Mb for..oh..about 20 mins before the agonising speed made me switch down to 8.
Seriously mate, even the window opening speed was glacial, really don't bother.
Seriously mate, even the window opening speed was glacial, really don't bother.
No, no tester into utilities directory [
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Are you sure it is a retail disc (with big orangy yellow 9 on disc) and not a machine-specific one? (iMac, iBook, PowerBook, Power Mac) The symptoms sound a lot like when you use a machine-specific 9 disc on an old world mac.
You do realize that this thread is almost a year old, right?
But I felt as if I knew the solution, I had to say something. 