Workgroup Server 7250/120

[Marc Stergionis]

At about 10:48 AM -0700 on 8/11/03, Longman, Bill wrote:
>  > Apple's website or YDL's website?
>  > I downloaded the YDL 3.0 ISOs and burned them to CD using
>  > Roxio on a Windows
>  > machine, but Disk 1 will not boot.  Do the CD's have to be
>  > burned on a Mac?
>  >
>  > -Channon
>  > You don't need to purchase a new OS. You can download the
>  > MacOS binaries off
>  > their web site. For free.
>
>You will find the MacOS binaries on Apple's website, not YDL. Sorry about
>that.
>
>It doesn't matter the OS used to burn the CDs, they will still be IS09660
>format. The old world macs don't seem to understand how to boot off any CD
>but their own Mac CDs. That's the usual problem. I'm not a Mackey, so I
>still don't know old worlds from new worlds from imacs from g3s. (That's why
>I'm on the newbie list!)

In a nutshell, G3 and later is New World (including all iMacs.) 
Earlier than G3 (72xx through 96xx, with PCI slots) are Old World. 
61xx, 7100 and 81xx have NuBus slots and aren't supported by YDL 
although you can use a special kernel to get YDL installed and, from 
there on, most stuff on this list/YDL site is relevant.

MacOS 7.5.5 is the only free operating system download from Apple, 
but should be fine for the original poster's use, especially since it 
has such a small footprint.

-ms
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Marc Stergionis
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Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org
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