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Posted by: manolopm on 2008-10-30 13:08:21
Hi:
I have this machine with an MacOS 7.5.5 installed. I got the original installation disk of a MacOS 9 and I'm trying to install (or upgrade or something) the machine.
When I put the disc in the cdrom it loads... appears a nice logo of MacOS 9 and load the system. But when I run the install program says:
"This program cannot run on your computer. See the documentation for more information"
🙁
I've been looking into documentation, I look into compatibility chart from Apple and I don't know why It doesn't work.
Any idea? help? anything?
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Posted by: Gil on 2008-10-30 13:31:22
Are you sure it's 9.0 and not 9.2 or 9.2.2?
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Posted by: porter on 2008-10-30 13:33:33
"This program cannot run on your computer. See the documentation for more information" As the quote says!
I run 8.6 on my 6200, that's the top for this machine, similar with the 6100.
I also run Debian Woody on mine and that works with my PDS ethernet.
I could go on about how the 603e is missing some atomic machine instructions for swapping word data that are critical for multiprocessing, but would you be interested?
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2008-10-30 22:58:01
How much RAM does it have? I'm thinking it may be happening because you may not have enough RAM. OS 9 requires at least 24 as a bare minimum, IIRC. (though it will be SLOW)
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Posted by: manolopm on 2008-10-31 00:16:19
MackAttack94: I'm really sure that it's a 9.0 (it's written on the CD).
Porter: Yes I'm interested. I'm interested too about how you install Woody, I tried with Potato for PPC with no success.
LCGuy:
Memory: 40 Mb
HD: 37.5 Gb
I thought that the problem was the upgrade procedure, so I change the HD and the same result.
Thanks to all
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Posted by: porter on 2008-10-31 01:14:16
Porter: Yes I'm interested. I'm interested too about how you install Woody, I tried with Potato for PPC with no success. It was black magic with two kernels, installation CDROMS and the MkLinux booter.
Have you tried http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/
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Posted by: wally on 2008-10-31 11:48:16
...I got the original installation disk of a MacOS 9... On your Mac OS 9 installation disk, in the Utilities folder is there a 5xxx/6xxx Tester 1.1 folder? If so, what happens when you run the 5xxx/6xxx Tester application?
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Posted by: applefreak on 2008-10-31 15:01:09
maximum os for the performa 6200 :
Mac Os 9.1
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Posted by: Rodus on 2008-10-31 17:27:11
9.1 will run on a 6200, I ran it on my 5200 - 40Mb for..oh..about 20 mins before the agonising speed made me switch down to 8.
Seriously mate, even the window opening speed was glacial, really don't bother.
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Posted by: manolopm on 2008-11-01 02:03:34
On your Mac OS 9 installation disk, in the Utilities folder is there a 5xxx/6xxx Tester 1.1 folder? If so, what happens when you run the 5xxx/6xxx Tester application? No, no tester into utilities directory [🙁] ]'>
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Posted by: equill on 2008-11-01 07:21:08
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA35668?viewlocale=en_US
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Posted by: Richard on 2009-08-23 17:02:10
Are you sure it is a retail disc (with big orangy yellow 9 on disc) and not a machine-specific one? (iMac, iBook, PowerBook, Power Mac) The symptoms sound a lot like when you use a machine-specific 9 disc on an old world mac.
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Posted by: Gil on 2009-08-23 17:40:26
You do realize that this thread is almost a year old, right?
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Posted by: Richard on 2009-08-23 17:46:31
But I felt as if I knew the solution, I had to say something. 😛
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