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

From	nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
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Subject	Re: How to put OS and other software onto a Macintosh IIci?
Date	2018-05-22 22:49 -0400
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In article <slrnpg9j6v.nkb.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.

the apple cd sc was an *external* 1x cd drive, released in 1988. other
models followed, from apple and other companies.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleCD>

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

a/ux shipped on cd well before macos did.

> 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.

as i recall, all of the floppy images were mounted, then the installer
on the first image was launched and it did its thing.

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

same here, but some remains.

Thread

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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