I even tried two Seagate ST5600N 500mb drives in it, but they won't spin up unless I boot from the Disk_Tools_PPC.img diskette and initialize them. Then, they are not found on subsequent power ups. In any case, there is no way to get an O/S on it from just the 7.5.3 floppies, so I'm giving up on it.
I guess the keyboard, mouse, ram, and vram might be useful. Those things might even be worth the $20 I paid for the unit...
The 7.5.3 set from Apple's site does not include a bootable diskette. It's meant to be installed from an already booted system. I also do not believe that the set is PPC compatible. I did manage to find a 5 diskette set of 7.1.2, which was incredibly lucky because it's been taken down already.
So, I do have a bootable system of sorts. Still have the problem of the Seagate ST566ON HD not spinnng up unless I boot from the PPC_Disk_Tools diskette and poke it. But after I do that, I can boot 7.1 from it. I'm hoping I can get that annoyance fixed soon. Might just need to set a jumper on the drive - I hope.
After all that, I still can't install 7.5.3 - when I insert the first diskette and try to run the installer, I get error -199. That's the error code (according to Apple's web site) for "mapReadErr -Map inconsistent with operation". I'm thinking that's because it won't run on a PPC, only a 68k... So us PPC owners seem to be out of luck as far as 7.5.3 on Apple's site.
Eric
--- On Wed, 7/1/09, Istarian <Slash...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Antonio Rodríguez (Grichan)
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