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allank
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on: August 24, 2007, 03:50
New to the forum and fascinated by all the posts I've read. I never realized that there were that many of us "old folks" around! I have a Duo2300c that has been chugging away wonderfully for years, controlling the x-10 lights in my house. It just crashed, and brings up a broken "bomb" system error window during boot. I say broken because the pop-up window is all garbled. The only drive I have for it is a floppy. No CD. I have the 7.6 CD and a G5 tower with OS 10.4.9. I took the Duo drive out, put it in a USB housing, and mounted it on my G5. I have copied the entire drive (all 1GB of it). Is there a way to install 7.6 on this drive via the G5? I tried simply launching the installer, but it says, of course, that the software won't run on the G5. Any other ways to resurrect the old pal? Any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers, Allan |
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB  Posts: 1646 
Reply #1 on: August 24, 2007, 04:17
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Turn the computer completely off, hold down shift, and start it up again and hold down shift until it says "Extensions Off" or "Extensions Disabled" and see if it boots up. I'm not aware of a way to install from OS X.
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allank
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Reply #2 on: August 24, 2007, 08:09
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Tried extensions off, tried resetting PRAM. I found that I had two system folders on the drive (System Folder, and System Folder Old), so I tried renaming them to see if the old system folder would work, but that didn't do it, either. I'm not sure I remember if there's a way to get it to ask which system folder to use when it boots...?
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #3 on: August 24, 2007, 11:22
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Quote from: "allank" Tried extensions off, tried resetting PRAM. I found that I had two system folders on the drive (System Folder, and System Folder Old), so I tried renaming them to see if the old system folder would work, but that didn't do it, either. I'm not sure I remember if there's a way to get it to ask which system folder to use when it boots...? Does that mean it booted when you turned off extensions? If so, then you have an extension or control panel conflict.
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dpaanlka
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Reply #4 on: August 24, 2007, 11:23
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Quote from: "allank" Tried extensions off, tried resetting PRAM. I found that I had two system folders on the drive (System Folder, and System Folder Old), so I tried renaming them to see if the old system folder would work, but that didn't do it, either. I'm not sure I remember if there's a way to get it to ask which system folder to use when it boots...? Does that mean it booted when you turned off extensions? If so, then you have an extension or control panel conflict. You can force System Folders with this small utility: http://download.system7today.com/systempicker.sit.hqx
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allank
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Reply #5 on: August 24, 2007, 16:08
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Quote The only way I can access the hard drive is to take it out of the Duo, plug it into a USB carrier, and mount it on my G5. An extremely complicated and tedious solution that may or may not work would be to install Sheep Shaver on the G5, install Mac OS 7.6.1 onto the Sheep Shaver emulated computer, then boot Sheep Shaver, pray it recognizes your mounted USB drive (mount it BEFORE you start Sheep Shaver), and the install Mac OS 7.6.1 (Universal for all Macs, because Sheep Shaver will not be emulating a PowerBook Duo and thus the default installation would not install vital Duo-specific pieces) onto the USB drive from within Sheep Shaver. http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/sheepshaver/
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wall
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Reply #6 on: September 23, 2007, 23:53
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If it is only a question of how to install, the easiest way could be to buy an usb floppy drive for the g5, to make a set of install floppies of your 7.6 cd. The usb floppy drive is cheap to buy and much easier to find, than a dock + scsi cd-drive for the duo.
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p-amadeus
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64 MB Posts: 89 
Reply #7 on: September 24, 2007, 06:51
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Couldn't you buy a USB -> serial adapter, plug your G5 into one of the Duo's serial ports, share the 7.6 CD from the G5, mount it on the Duo (booted from a floppy with the HD reinstalled) then just install away?
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p-amadeus
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64 MB Posts: 89
Reply #8 on: September 24, 2007, 06:52
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Or just find a SCSI CD-ROM on eBay.
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #9 on: September 24, 2007, 06:52
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Quote from: "p-amadeus" Couldn't you buy a USB -> serial adapter, plug your G5 into one of the Duo's serial ports, share the 7.6 CD from the G5, mount it on the Duo (booted from a floppy with the HD reinstalled) then just install away? I don't think Mac OS X's implementation of AppleShare has the ability to use Serial ports.
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