Subject: Re: iMac MacOS 8.5
From: jos eph (ojom20@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 11:08:57 MDT
Hey Sam and Tim,
I guess I will upgrade to OS 8.6. Too bad it's 36 MB! Shoot gee! I pay by
the minute for Internet here in Vietnam and that's going to cost me... Oh
well. My brothers are named Sam and Tim...spooky.
joseph
>From: Samuel Rydh <samuel@ibrium.se>
>To: jos eph <ojom20@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: iMac MacOS 8.5
>Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:47:03 +0200
>
>On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 01:08:00PM +0700, jos eph wrote:
> > Hi,
> > MOL says that for anything less than Mac OS 8.6 you need to use an old
>boot
> > rom. I have an iMac with Mac OS 8.5. So I think no problem. I'll go
>old
> > world. However it doesn't work. I get the chime and a blank screen.
>So
> > then I do some more reaing on the MOL site and find this:
> >
> > "Boot ROMs from other computers might work too (please report success or
> > failure!). ROMs from G3, iMac, iBook and PowerBoook do NOT work. This is
> > really not an issue since it is possible to use a NewWorld ROM instead
> > (recommended on ALL machines)."
> >
> > What am I to do? I don't wanna upgrade to 8.6!
> > joseph
>
>Unfortunately, either you have to upgrade to 8.6 (you
>could install 8.6 on a file-image and use that for MOL)
>or find an old machine (e.g. 8500) and take an oldworld
>snapshot.
>
>Regards,
>/Samuel
>
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