Ok I finally used what little knowledge of UNIX I have to figure out what I was doing wrong and make a proper boot disk.
Thanks to JRL for helping me get my computer to boot up ag…
68kMLASoftwareby anothrgrnworldFri, 14 Aug 2009 - 01:48
I mean I did exactly what the procedure in the link I posted above told me to do. It seemed to work fine, no error messages were displayed. What am I doing wrong?
68kMLASoftwareby anothrgrnworldThu, 13 Aug 2009 - 23:18
What machine are you installing 7.1 on, and do you have another old Mac to verify the network disk you made? Pretty much any Mac that came with a floppy drive will boot from the 7.…
The local Goodwill used to have the main store (standard botique setup, albeit larger), something called "Buy the Pound" (which sounds like your clearance centre), and an electroni…
I have never seen a Clearance Center. They operate "Clothing Stores" and stores called "ComputerWorks" around here, but there may be a large repository of donated items that isn't…
68kMLAPeripheralsby tyrannisThu, 13 Aug 2009 - 22:44
Yeah, I was planning on swapping the whole display assembly from the 180 into the 165's case. The only thing I need off the 165 is the back plastic, as the one on the 180's has a h…
68kMLAHardwareby iamdigitalmanThu, 13 Aug 2009 - 22:40
The SimplyTV card would have its own VRAM, which is how it would be able to support the extended desktop.
I haven't played around with mirrored displays in the Classic Mac OS for a…
68kMLAHardwareby phreakindeeThu, 13 Aug 2009 - 22:31
The SimplyTV card would have its own VRAM, which is how it would be able to support the extended desktop.
I haven't played around with mirrored displays in the Classic Mac OS for …
OK... i'm really not looking foreword to all of those disk swaps. would it be possible to install from my iMac via a network?
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Network installs work for most …
For the classic Apple monitors, the sense lines are only sampled at power-on time. So fiddling with the switches without power cycling won't give you the "true picture".
So I had to just turn the machine off before the install finished and now when I boot up I get the old "The 'System' file on this startup disk may be damaged. The Installer can be …
68kMLASoftwareby anothrgrnworldThu, 13 Aug 2009 - 21:45
Anyone ever heard of this offshoot of Goodwill, called the Goodwill Clearance Center? There's one now right behind the "Super" Goodwill where I am, near Asheville NC (it's like a G…
68kMLAPeripheralsby phreakindeeThu, 13 Aug 2009 - 21:22
An alternative to 7.1.1 is 7.5.3 (freely available from Apple; no need to download an unauthorized OS release of dodgy ancestry). If the size bothers you, just use Gamba's "digital…
OK... when i plugged in my adaptor and lcd monitor into my LC III, no picture. after messing with the switches on the adaptor i got a picture, but after unplugging everything movin…
68kMLAHardwareby macgeek417Thu, 13 Aug 2009 - 20:58
I just got a SimplyTV card by eMachines for my LC 575. It works fine through S-video, which is what I wanted. However, is there a way to get it to display only one monitor/screen a…
68kMLAHardwareby phreakindeeThu, 13 Aug 2009 - 20:35