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Re: Where would this be appropriate?



In <PAEEe.585$8g.478@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com> Jonathan Herr wrote:
> I know this is not a Mac forum, but i don't know which mac newsgroup 
> it should go in (just nudge me in the proper direction.)

comp.sys.mac.system would probably be most appropriate. There's still 
plenty of people in there who have or had older Macs.
 
> I have a Macintosh LC II and I can get the images for MacOS 7 off of 
> apple's site... but how would I install it on a machine (without 
> putting it onto disks)  I only have a MacOS 9 machine to format disks, 
> and the LC machine doesn't seem to really like it when I format the 
> disk under MacOS 9.

What exactly happens when you try to use a disk formatted on the newer 
Mac? I assume you have other disks which do work OK? Have you tried 
cleaning the disk heads with a floppy drive cleaner?

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