On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Bill Layer wrote: > Tim, > > On Tuesday 27 February 2001 03:01, you wrote: > > Well, the hard disk is spinning up, and is accessed prior to the boot > > process failing. > > Ok, so you mean to say that it looks, but can't find anything? Safe to say > that (in the least) some data is missing. Corrupt / unblessed System folder > etc. It looks, gives the smiley "computer" face, then flashes the question-mark floppy icon. > It is not making any unusual noises, and was working > > just fine until now... I think it's all right... If not, I do have > > another laptop SCSI hard drive that I could use. > > Might need it. Ok. I'll bring it with. > > I have tried booting from a MacOS system CD, but have been unable to get > > it to boot using an external CD-ROM drive. This could have been a bad CD, > > however, since I only have one. > > normally that is done by holding down 'c' as the machine starts. If it won't > go, it could be because the external CD-ROM is not Genuine Apple on the > firmware level. (Is it?) I Do have a good bootable system 7.6 CD, as well as > the startup floppies (which can be made from the CD). The CDROM drive is definately not apple. It's from an Omnibook 800 (which had external SCSI. A mac friend of mine had me try booting with another key sequence, though - Cmd-Option-backspace or something. Perhaps he was mistaken, in which case I can try a reinstall of MacOS prior to Saturday. > > Do you also have a MkLinux CD? If so, I can be sure to make the > > installfest... > > I have never used mklinux, only Debian m68k on the Macs. I'm not aware of a > .iso image for m68k Debian, but I do have the base install set burned to a > cd-rom. Once you install the base, the machine can get the rest from the > Internet with apt. Will the m68k distribution work on a PowerPC based system? If so, I would definately prefer using Debian. My impression was the mklinux was the only distribution that supported both the PowerPC chip and the NuBus archietecture. > I'm not sure if my external CD-ROM drive works, but > > perhaps someone else will have a SCSI CD-ROM at the installfest. > > I'll have at least one.. Ok. I will be sure to bring the cable. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- What the president of the Motion Picture Association of America says about taking away your constitutional rights: "I'm rather jubilant now. What Judge Kaplan did was blow away every one of these brittle and fragile rebuttals. He threw out fair use; he threw out reverse engineering; he threw out linking." - Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ______ _ __ "If you don't have the freedom to use what you / ' ) ) own - then you do not own anything." / o ______ / / _ . . No apologies to Jack Valenti or the MPAA / <_/ / / < / (_</_(_/_ -- tneu at visi.com / http://www.visi.com/~tneu --