[Duo2400] Re: Original system on 2400?

[Larry Friedman]

Make sure you install 7.6.1 and not just 7.6.


On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 02:32  PM, Ivan Drucker wrote:

> The US models did ship with 8.0, but they definitely
> run 7.6.1 also -- I had mine doing that for a while.
> The problem is I can't remember how. I'll dig up my
> old boot disks and see if I can figure anything out.
>
> Ivan.
>
> --- Nicole <kludgrrl at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> Hi y'all,
>>
>> a while back I was looking to make a system 7.6.1
>> boot disk for my
>> 2400 in order to work on floppy disks created by old
>> systems (1 thru
>> 6) without deblessing them.  In the end I decided I
>> didn't need to,
>> but in the process I was told the following:
>>
>> At 2:04 PM -0500 3/2/03, Bill Brown wrote:
>>> You speak of booting your 2400 to MacOS 7.6.1. I am
>> confused. My 2400 came
>>> to me new out of the box with MacOS 8.0 installed.
>> I have long since
>>> upgraded to MacOS 8.1. I've had no need to look at
>> anything later. I am
>>> aware that the 2400 was introduced into the Asian
>> market with MacOS 7.6.1
>>> installed. All my literature and all information I
>> have found for my North
>>> American 2400 is that MacOS 8.0 is the oldest it
>> will run on. I have tried
>>> to install MacOS 7.6.1 on my 2400 to no avail; the
>> installer said no way. I
>>> have tried booting my 2400 to an external drive
>> with an all-flavor install
>>> of MacOS 7.6.1 also to no avail. I have understood
>> that the issue is that
>>> only the earliest of 'book 2400s sold in the Asian
>> market have boot ROMs
>>> that will recognize MacOS 7.6.1. The rest of the
>> world received 'book 2400s
>>> with newer boot ROMs requiring MacOS 8.0 and newer.
>> This may well be
>>> mytholgy. I do not know.
>>
>> Now, according to Apple, the 2400 *does* run 7.6.1
>> (although my pb
>> also came with system 8), so what's the deal?
>>
>> Is there a hardware difference btw the original
>> Japanese 2400's and
>> the ones released in the US?  Can the 2400 run on
>> 7.6.1?
>>
>> Does anyone know?
>>
>> Nicole
>>
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