tezza
Veteran Member
A question for Mac folk. Sorry if this seems a stupid question but I don't know too much about these machines.
Is it possible to prepare a 7.1 "bootable" SCSI external hard drive from a Mac running 7,1, connect that drive up to another working Mac (with a damaged OS) and then use the drive to boot the machine, AND THEN install OS 7.1 from copies of the installation disks on the external drive (hence repairing the OS?)
The reason I ask is that I've recently installed 7.1. succesfully on one of my Classic IIs after obtaining some new original installation disks. It's now in clean configuration. I was looking to clean up my SE/30, which has OS 6.x installed and is full of all kinds of crap from previous users. When I tried to install 7.1 over the top from floppies, the machine had trouble reading the installation disks. I'm suspecting some kind of fault in the floppy disk drive. It tries to read it and gets through various stages before coming to grief. It sounds like it's trying to read a track and failing.
Problem is, this part-installation has now damaged the existing OS on the HD of the SE/30 and it won't boot? Is it possible to do what's described above and so fix the problem?
If worst comes to worse, I could just replace the floppy drive and try again. I do have a non-working SE sitting around here for "parts". On thinking about it, this might be the easier solution if the floppy drive is damaged as I'll have to do it eventually (but it may just need a clean?).
I just hope the Installation disks have not become corrupt! In retrospect I should have made copies of them first and used those.
Tez
Is it possible to prepare a 7.1 "bootable" SCSI external hard drive from a Mac running 7,1, connect that drive up to another working Mac (with a damaged OS) and then use the drive to boot the machine, AND THEN install OS 7.1 from copies of the installation disks on the external drive (hence repairing the OS?)
The reason I ask is that I've recently installed 7.1. succesfully on one of my Classic IIs after obtaining some new original installation disks. It's now in clean configuration. I was looking to clean up my SE/30, which has OS 6.x installed and is full of all kinds of crap from previous users. When I tried to install 7.1 over the top from floppies, the machine had trouble reading the installation disks. I'm suspecting some kind of fault in the floppy disk drive. It tries to read it and gets through various stages before coming to grief. It sounds like it's trying to read a track and failing.
Problem is, this part-installation has now damaged the existing OS on the HD of the SE/30 and it won't boot? Is it possible to do what's described above and so fix the problem?
If worst comes to worse, I could just replace the floppy drive and try again. I do have a non-working SE sitting around here for "parts". On thinking about it, this might be the easier solution if the floppy drive is damaged as I'll have to do it eventually (but it may just need a clean?).
I just hope the Installation disks have not become corrupt! In retrospect I should have made copies of them first and used those.
Tez