[Duo2400] Original system on 2400?

[Ivan Drucker]

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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