[DuoList] Re: Duos for donation

[Rich Bussone]

On Oct 18, 2007, at 5:59 PM, <allenpau at wellsfargo.com>  
<allenpau at wellsfargo.com> wrote:


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> Rich Wrote:
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> Thanks for the info.  I found out that I was burning Mac OS extended
> CD-Rs and my power mac will only read Mac OS CD's.  I burned a Mac OS
> C-R on Toast lite and the Power Mac read it fine.  I have the power  
> mac
> and the Duo connected via ethernet, but I still need to do a clean
> install on the Duos.  I haven't checked out the USB drive since the
> nearest computer stores are Circuit City and Best Buy which are 40
> minutes away and I am not sure they would carry them.  I have a OS  
> 8.0,
> but how I can use it on the power mac to install on the duo?
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> Rich
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Hello Rich:

I think there might be problems with trying to install from the PM to  
the Duos over ethernet.  That doesn't mean you shouldn't try.  I've  
only installed over SCSI from an installer.

What I would do next would be:

1.) If you can mount the Duo hard drive on the PM desktop (using  
Ethernet), try to copy over your System folder to the Duo.  Use only  
the extensions you absolutely need to enable Ethernet and  
OpenTransport and filesharing for this.  Some extensions that are  
being used by the PM will not copy over.  Restart with Extensions  
disabled (shift at start, until no extensions message), make copies  
of files that didn't copy over, rename them or compress them and try  
copying again.

2.) Remove the PPC only extensions and control panels if you don't  
need them (I don't remember which Duo you have).

3.) When you say that you have OS 8.0, is that on the PM?  If not,  
then what functioning OS is on the PM?

This is why top down posting is so necessary here, so that info like  
this is left on the page for quick and easy problem solving.

This doesn't really sound like a difficult problem, it's just getting  
enough information together to suggest a viable solution.

Grizzledgiant




Thanks again

I have system 8.0 on my power mac 6160AV and I have a System 8.0 disk  
I am trying to clean install on the duos in order to clear the hard  
drive so I can give them away.  I was able to mount the disk on the  
duo desktop and I was finally able to install the system on the duo,  
but while I checked clean install, when it was done, the hard drive  
on the duo still has all the same info on it.  Shouldn't a clean  
install erase the hard drive?

Rich