On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:40:14AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > Try getting a floppy drive cleaning kit. [...] > Don't be afraid to use it two or three times on an old floppy drive that > is badly gummed up with dust and crud. You'll see a marvelous > improvement in the error rate in the boot-from-floppy process. Thanks for the Tip. I have found out now, that swapping drives is really easy. One of the four drives is in better shape than the others and I can get a more-or-less reliable boot with them.
Now another problem surfaces: The hard-disk drive is only found sometimes when booting woody from floppy. With MacOS there is no problem. Anybody seen this, is a cure available? Maybe the disk is not spun up? I have not tried the sarge installer yet. > The best way I've found to boot OldWorld Macs is with BootX, a little I already mentioned, that MacOS is not an option. I want to donate the whole disk to Linux and I'm unsure about the licensing: I inherited these boxes with a MacOs 8.6 installed but I don't have any boot-disks. So I want a Linux-only solution... Ralf -- Ralf Schlatterbeck email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX: +43/2243/26465/23 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
