Here's the message I just sent to ClassicMacs mailing list, I'm too lazy to
type it all again ;-)
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Just picked up a Mac II 5/80/two 800k FD's for $15(including a datatronics
keyboard and an Apple mouse), with an ethernet card that everyone seemedd
to think was a second video card... They said whenever they plugged a
monitor into it, the computer shutdown. I hope it hasn't been destroyed...
Anyways, it came with System 6.0.5, Word 4.0 and Illustrator 88(and tons of
documents for both programs), all of which have already been deleted.
Problem is that I'm having trouble getting System 7.0 to run. At first I
couldn't get it to boot at all from the disk tools disk, then I finally
installed it onto one of the three partitions and deleted the Sys6 system
folder. Then it still woudn't boot. I took out the ethernet card and my PC
Drive card(which I think may be bad). Now it tries two or three times
minimum to boot from the hard drive, and usually refuses to boot from the
floppy(although that may be fixed now, I'm not sure). The Apple HD SC Setup
on the Disk Tools disk did not see the disk, so I went back to my PowerMac
which had a copy of a hacked HD SC Setup I had downloaded. Back to the II,
where the disk refused to boot. OK, I finally got it to boot from the HD,
then I opened the floppy, and then the system folder. Finally the normal
System Folder icon is back and it boots again. I launch the hacked HD SC
Setup and it sees a disk at SCSI ID 6(I haven't changed that yet, I need to
take the HD out and find the info on it), but it can't reformat. It says it
can't prepare the disk for initialization, no particular reason is given...
Current config right now is 5/80 with the two 800k drives, and the Radius
Pivot interface. Any ideas? I'm stumped.
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Received on Tue Mar 24 1998 - 01:12:38 GMT