[Duo2400] OS 8.6?

[Milton Lukins]

In light of recent OS 8.6 discussions I am inspired to return to a dormant
project.

What I have:

a PowerMac 6100/66 running OS 8.6 with 40 mb of RAM and a 500 mb hard drive
with only 28 mb of space left.  It has Netscape, Internet Explorer, and
Outlook Express and is currently hooked up to an Earthlink DSL modem.

a PowerMac 7200/90 running OS 8.5.1 with (32+32+8+8=) 80 mb of RAM and a 500
mb hard drive. No Internet Explorer, no Outlook Express just AOL :(

a PowerMac 7200/75 running OS 7.6.1 with (16+16=) 32 mb of RAM and a 500 mb
hard drive.  There is IE (version 4.5).

a Duo 2300c running OS 8.1 with 40 mb of ram and a 500 mb hard drive. It has
Netscape and Eudora.  Also 5 DuoDocks, two with the tick of death, two with
hard drives in them. A Minidock.  Seven dead batteries.


What I did:

I pulled the two 16 mb RAM chips out of the 7200/75 and replaced the 8 mb
chips in the 7200/90 to boost the total to 96 mb of RAM.  I then pulled the
hard drive out and with a jumper from and old 250 mb hard drive and I
configured it as a slave (or tried to anyway) to the /90 hard drive and put
it in the 7200/90.  There are now three icons in my startup disk folder.
The "MAC" icon launches OS 8.5.1. The "Macintosh HD" icon (the added hard
drive) launches OS 7.6.1.  The "RAM Disk" icon also launches 7.6.1.


What I would like to have:

The 7200/90 and the Duo 2300c both running OS 8.6 with Internet Explorer and
Outlook Express.  I have tranceivers and an ethernet crossover cable but
have yet to try connecting two computers together.

Can I get there from here?  Any comments or suggestions will be gratefully
and humbly appreciated.


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