My
Performa 575 has only been set up for a few days and already it’s time for some upgrades! The machine still had the stock installation of System 7.1. We can do much better than that.
Bring on OS 7.6!
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I first booted up the machine with the Disk Tools floppy and gave the hard drive a wipe. I then ran the installer from the CD.
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I didn’t get too fancy with the options since most of the cool stuff on the installer requires a G3. I was mainly concerned with getting networking up and running again. I won’t have to run the Asante installer since all the TCP/IP stuff should be handled by the OS right out of the box.
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First boot! Fingers crossed.
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I jumped right into the TCP/IP menu and configured it for DHCP.
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I then copied Fetch over via floppy and fired it up.
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I connected to my site and downloaded Lenna. Boom. It’s that easy.
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Since my Color Classic is on the fritz and requires a new logicboard, I figured now was as good a time as any to rob it of the M2115 1GB hard drive that it was using.
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The cool thing about this drive is that it has Silverlining built right in. You can boot right off it if you have an OS on it.
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I happen to have System 7.5 on it. It’s nice to have an external drive you can move between machines for a quick and dirty dual-boot.
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Seeing that the drive worked and my SCSI settings were OK, I rebooted the machine into my fresh install of System 7.6. The external drive popped right up.
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Do you know how long it’ll take to fill a 1GB drive on a 68K Mac? I could fit a good 700 disk images on it.
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I figured I’d give the Macintosh TV a little love too. It’s been sitting in the corner between my iMac G4 and my Mac SE for some time now. I used to gravitate towards the Color Classic, but with that machine on the blink, I think I’ll start using the Macintosh TV more regularly. With that said, it’ll need an Ethernet card.
I popped in a Farallon card and fired it up.
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I threw Fetch onto it via floppy...
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Configured TCP/IP for DHCP...
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Fired up Fetch and connected to my site....
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Then pulled down Lenna. Another Mac on the internet. So easy.
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I then moved the Mac TV to where the Color Classic used to be so the two machines would be side-by-side.
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So that’s a System 7 and a System 8 machine up and running with network connectivity. Sweet.