Mary got the kids a Mac Performa 575 at a garage sale for $80.
It's acting wierd (Nov 2002). What if I wanted to re-install the OS?
- # requires System 7.1 (with Enabler 065) or later; highest version supported without a PPC upgrade is Mac OS 8.1.
- 500 Series
various recommendations about whether 71., 7.5, or 8.x is better on this machine...
grabbed system 7.1 ...
system 7.1.x found via mac512 pointers
Burned it on CD ROM from OS X box. Oddly, that didn't work on the Proforma. But I didn't have the Disk Copy utility there anyway; so I put the CD in the linux box and did
% dd if=imagefile.image of=/dev/fd0 bs=84 skip=1
(from a macos faq)
Trying to boot from that disk gave a "you need newer system software" message.
so I grabbed system 7.5 from somewhere and burned it on CD from the linux box:
% mkisofs -o /usr/local/bak-cd/macsys7.x.iso -R -J -V Mac OS System 7.x -hfs .
stuck it in the performa, unpacked the 19 parts, tried it, discovered I needed more disk space, clean up the disk a little, and then it installed OK.
Still the apps complained about not enough memory, and the "about this mac" showed the system using all but about 4MB. One of the game README files said "turn on 32 bit addressing in the memory control panel" so I did that, and voila, the problems were gone. It's possible I didn't need to re-install the system at all.
Hmm... it sure feels odd to not have an ethernet connector on this machine. Comm Slot Ethernet Cards seem to cost about $60 or $70, plus shipping -- probably more than we paid for the machine itself. Ah; LC-PDS Ethernet Cards are about half that.
Other stuff I found along the way:
"Apple - Mac OS 8.0/8.1 Support [USA]?":http://www.info.apple.com/usen/macos8.1/
Mac OS 8: Clean Installation Instructions for Performa Computers
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