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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on July 15, 2004, 11:14:41 am ---P-P-P-Powerbook

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=19711;start=msg158392#msg158392

Sorry for this brief and useless intteruption, we now return this to your regularly scheduled thread.  .  .

--- End quote ---

Heh, saw that at the time... my powerbook is much older than that, though, and probably not worth  much money.

ChadTower:
Here's my current status.  I found the Network Access image for 7.5, which presumably would allow me to boot the system and blast the HD, etc.  I found some instructions for how to get this onto a floppy from a PC, but it's not really working.  I downloaded the .sea.bin.  I used stuffit to expand to a .sea, then used stuffit again to expand and came out with a Network Access folder with a .image and a readme in there.

Now I'm using NTRawrite to try and drop that onto a floppy in its raw mac format.  The problem?

"NTRawrite: Image size mismatch -- floppy can hold 1474560 bytes, but image file
is 1474644 bytes long."

I've tried everything I can think of, started the process from scratch 8 times... always the same results.  I'm stuck.

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 15, 2004, 02:18:46 pm ---Here's my current status.  I found the Network Access image for 7.5, which presumably would allow me to boot the system and blast the HD, etc.  I found some instructions for how to get this onto a floppy from a PC, but it's not really working.  I downloaded the .sea.bin.  I used stuffit to expand to a .sea, then used stuffit again to expand and came out with a Network Access folder with a .image and a readme in there.

Now I'm using NTRawrite to try and drop that onto a floppy in its raw mac format.  The problem?

"NTRawrite: Image size mismatch -- floppy can hold 1474560 bytes, but image file
is 1474644 bytes long."

I've tried everything I can think of, started the process from scratch 8 times... always the same results.  I'm stuck.

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Mac's use a different floppy format from PC's (at least they used to) could be your problem, although that's about all I know about Mac's except that USB works on both, sometimes.

ChadTower:
Okay, next approach:  

Are the 7.6 OS install CDs bootable?  If so, can the 5300 boot from SCSI CD?  We have a buttload of external SCSI CDs around here in my office.

NoOne=NBA=:
Yes, but you need a SCSI adapter for the port on the Powerbook.

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