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MacOS 8.6/8.5 CD

  • 02-01-2004 6:32pm
    #1
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,181 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm wondering if any of the mac-heads, err, -users our there have a MacOS 8.6 CD around they're not using? I want to obtain one so that I can reinstall the MacOS base system on the Mac I've just obtained should I screw it up.

    I'm willing to buy it, pay shipping, collect it in town, whatever.

    8.5 would do as well, but it cannot be a restore disk (unless its a Performa/PowerMac 5400 one)


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  • #2
    deevey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 707 ✭✭✭deevey


    Yeah i have a 8.6 cd from my old powerbook, it should do the trick PM with your details and will arange a pickup :)

    Steve


  • #3
    dando80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭dando80


    Is there a reason why it' cant be a restore disk?

    I could do u a copy of the os 8.6 cd that came with an imac.
    I'm pretty sure that it will be as relevant to a 5400 as the 8.6 cd that came with a powerbook, as I'm sure the powerbooks came with powerbook restore/install cds like the imac did....

    Any other probs?


  • #4
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,181 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Well the install on it is from an iMac 8.5B CD is it not? And the IRDa, modem, network card, volume controls and brightness controls aren't seen by the OS, because it thinks its on an iMac...

    Then again, an install from a PowerBook CD may make it think its on a PowerBook.

    Someone on BeShare told me thats theres an option in the restore CD installer to tell its it is on another machine. But as the last Mac I had to reinstall on was a System 7 68040 machine I have buried in my attic I cannot remember


  • #5
    dando80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭dando80


    I see!
    I think that that might be solved as easily as getting a copy of the System Enabler for the 5400 and putting it in the System Folder. Try that. I'll help you hunt down a solution if that don't work, just let me know.


    I have just seen that the enabler you need is 410. I'll try and find it for you.


  • #6
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,181 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Found it - theres a lot of former Mac-heads on BeShare and one of them had a system enabler page mirrored on his HDD...

    I'm still confused as to how a 256KB file is going to "enable" the hardware but I'll give it a try... BeOS isn't this odd in its hardware support :-)


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  • #7
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,181 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Apparently, Enabler 410 is to use the machine with MacOS 7.5.5 and earlier, and 8.x should work without any enabler http://www.graphixmad.plus.com/mac_troubleshooter/system_enablers.html

    I did change the enabler to the 410 one I found and nothing else started working anyway.

    I think a reinstall may be needed.. It'll also give me a chance to put a bigger HDD in it.


  • #8
    dando80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭dando80


    The small file is supposed to clue the os up on the standard hw installed in the mac,.

    Since system 8, the enabler has been included in the system file instead of a seperate file.

    The install I gave you, probably had the imacs enabler in there.

    Easiest solution is to get hold of a mac os install cd like you were trying to do, (Sorry, I'm a tiny bit rusty) and not an install or restore cd from a different mac.


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