Re: Apple Lisa Office System, Help!

[louiss@gate.net (Louis Schulman)]

In <37221149.0@news.sisna.com>, "Matt Kiehl" <waffle@sisna.com> writes:
>Hi,
>I am trying to install the Lisa OS on my Apple Lisa, I cant install it
>though because it says it cant write to the hard drive..
>The hard drive works and normally boots into sunrem macworks.
>It is sunrem hard drive (20 meg), not a profile or widget, is it not
>compatible with the lisa OS? Is there any way I can install it, or install
>to a diskette or something?

Well, I have never tried the SunRem 20 so take this with a grain of salt.
If it is a SCSI drive it won't work, the Lisa OS has no SCSI drivers.  I 
don't know if the Lisa OS can recognize a 20 meg parallel drive (if that is
what you have).  If it can, the drive certainly needs to be reformatted if
it now boots into MacWorks (Mac drives are formatted differently).

Of course, you need "virgin" install disks, not disks that have ever been
used to install the OS on another machine (they become serialized).

If none of the above, you will need a ProFile or Widget.  But, the existence
of the 20 meg drive leads me to conclude you also have the Mac video
modification.  The Lisa OS will not display at all with this mod in place.

Louis