Re: Where would this be appropriate?

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz>]

In <17GEe.591$8g.486@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com> Jonathan Herr wrote:
> "Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote in message
> 20050724173820474+1200@News.Individual.NET">news:20050724173820474+1200@News.Individual.NET...
>> In <PAEEe.585$8g.478@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com> Jonathan Herr wrote:
>> > 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?
> 
> Sorry I wasn't clear on that point... The disk I was referring to was 
> a HardDisk and when format the disk (to wipe it) or if I try to 
> install MacOS 7 on the disk from within OS9, it tells me when i reboot 
> with the newly installed OS (MacOS 7) that the disk "Won't work on 
> this mac" because it's not formatted properly or something like that.

It could be a driver problem as David and Michael said, although if 
you're using Apple's Drive Setup program I believe it creates driver 
partitions on the disk which contain both the old and new drivers.

Another possibility is that the drive has been formatted as HFS+ (a.k.a. 
Mac OS Extended). This format was only introduced with Mac OS 8.1, and 
even then it can only be booted on a PowerPC Mac. I don't know what 
would happen if you tried to boot System 7 from it, but make sure the 
drive has been formatted as HFS (a.k.a. Mac OS Standard).

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://vintageware.orcon.net.nz/
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