I have had some success in formatting my CF card and installing a OS.

No matter what utility I use to format it, the disk tools disk for 7.5.3 will not see the disk.  So I decided to see if I could install a newer OS.  I have a copy of 7.6 here.  I formatted the 4GB CF card for 1 partition 4GBs large.  I tried 7.5.3 and it would not work.  The HD format tool in the disk tools floppy for 7.5.3 could not see the SCSI drive.  When I ran Disk First Aid from the same floppy, it sees the 4GB SCSI drive and when I ran verify or repair it said nothing was wrong with it. This is driving me nuts.

So then tried to installed 7.6.  It was a clean install, no errors.

Everything is working fine now.  But I still have an issue.  I prefer OS 7.1 to maybe 7.5.5.  OS 7.6 is just to modern to me.  I am not a big fan of 7.6.  If it gives me better Internet access or something I can go with it, but I would rather run a older OS. 

Could it be that  when I am formatting the CF card, I am using a more modern format that can not be read by 7.5.3?  If so, how can I get around this? 

Any thoughts?

Thanks for the help everyone.

jack