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Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci?

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In message <220520180832393564%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <slrnpg7bml.1r2.g.kreme@Snow.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> Probably, SCSI is SCSI, but I don't know. Our IIci
>> predated optical drives)

> no it didn't. the apple cd sc, a scsi 1x cd-rom drive, was released in
> 1988, *before* the iici, which was released in september, '89. i
> vaguely remember the cd sc being released in early '88, which would
> even have predated the iix.

No Mac shipped with a CD drive when the IIci came out. The IIci did not
have a CD ROM drive. With the possible exception of $10,000+ servers, no
macs had Optical drives at the time and no System software came on CDs
for you to boot from and install without using floppies, which is the
point of all this.

Even if you did have a CD drive, you wouldn't have a Mac OS installer on
a CD image anyway.

However, now that I think about it, it's possible the floppy images were
a virtual volume spanning many discs, so putting all the images onto a
single drive (HD or CD) and opening the first image Might let you run
the installer because it will mount all the disk images.

Don't quote me on that one though, this is knowledge I tried to flush
decades ago.

-- 
I noticed that but was still trying to work out a way of drawing it to
everyone's attention that would be sufficiently satisfying, combining
maximum entertainment value for readers with maximum humiliation for you.
   -- Laura

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How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? matthewmpower@gmail.com - 2018-05-21 17:50 -0700
  Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-05-21 20:56 -0400
    Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? matthewmpower@gmail.com - 2018-05-21 19:14 -0700
      Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-05-21 23:19 -0400
    Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-21 20:06 -0700
    Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-05-22 05:47 +0000
      Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-05-21 23:51 -0700
        Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-05-22 19:25 +1200
          Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? matthewmpower@gmail.com - 2018-05-22 16:29 -0700
            Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2018-05-23 09:00 +0100
              Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-05-23 08:46 -0400
        Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 01:18 -0700
        Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-05-23 01:51 +0000
          Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-05-22 22:49 -0400
            Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 21:08 -0700
      Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-05-22 08:32 -0400
        Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 07:19 -0700
        Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-05-23 02:07 +0000
          Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-05-22 22:49 -0400
          Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci? Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 20:07 -0700

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