DOH! Unmangled URL here: http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/
Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Gee, quik works just fine on my 7200. But the OF is so lame that it doesn't > really matter whether quik works or not. The two reliable methods I use for > the 7200 are a boot floppy (the one from the CD with the editing changes > suggested by another lister to boot using my hard drive's root partition) or > using BootX from MacOS, which very easily allows me to use several different > kernels. The later was harder this time around because I had to install > macos from scratch, and all I have is this 7.5.2 CD, and you don't get much > when install that! Definitely no stuffit expander or any of that. I > eventually figured out how to download Expander_Installer_5.5.bin format and > used hfsutils `unbin' command to get it ready to run. Also, I did this using > netatalk. Don't ask how I ended up with that, but it worked. I tried lots > of other approaches first, booting back and forth between macos and linux, > but that didn't seem to work. Macos just didn't like the resulting files. > > http://www.aladdinnsys.com/expander/ > > Use their FTP site for hassle free downloading. Netscape wanted to slaughter > the download file otherwise no matter what I did. > > One weird thing is that booting with quik on the 7500/7600 was always hit or > miss, 90% miss actually, because the lame OF just didn't understand that the > drive takes time to get ready. Even the various workarounds suggested on the > nvsetenv man page and on this list didn't work. So I made a special boot > floppy as mentioned above. Now quik works every time! Just having the > floppy in there for some reason makes it work. The floppy drive isn't even > in the boot path because boot-device is set to the scsi disk as per how you > are supposed to get quik to work. Amazing!
