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Apple PowerBook Duo 230
Posted by: TrollFromBelarus on 2015-06-18 08:37:56 Hi. I have a PowerBook Duo 230 with problem. When I tired to turn it on, I see on screen a floppy disk icon with symbol "?" What I need to do ? I attached file if somebody understand what i mean. Sorry for my bed english, I'm from Belarus 🙂
Posted by: bibilit on 2015-06-18 08:46:08 This symbol means that no valid system has been found to boot properly. The Hard disk has no system installed properly, of more likely the hard drive is bad or missing.
Posted by: TrollFromBelarus on 2015-06-18 08:54:15 This symbol means that no valid system has been found to boot properly. The Hard disk has no system installed properly, of more likely the hard drive is bad or missing. The hard drive on the place. How I can to install a new operating system ? I have only laptop, doc station and floppy disk and PowerBook 1400cs
Posted by: Elfen on 2015-06-18 09:19:05 If the hard drive is there, chances are that it went bad. Go to the 1400 and see what OS is it running on. If it is running System 7, you might be in luck. the Duo 230 uses a 68030 CPU, not a PowerPC that the 1400 uses but System 7 can run on both.
Posted by: TrollFromBelarus on 2015-06-18 09:40:44 If the hard drive is there, chances are that it went bad. Go to the 1400 and see what OS is it running on. If it is running System 7, you might be in luck. the Duo 230 uses a 68030 CPU, not a PowerPC that the 1400 uses but System 7 can run on both. 1400 have Mac os 8.6 on board
Posted by: raoulduke on 2015-06-18 11:36:49 You can use a USB floppy drive with WinImage or HFVExplorer. 'Burn' floppies from Windows to use on Powerbook. Or, you can use an external SCSI CD drive with the Duo.
Posted by: TrollFromBelarus on 2015-06-18 15:01:19 You can use a USB floppy drive with WinImage or HFVExplorer. 'Burn' floppies from Windows to use on Powerbook. Or, you can use an external SCSI CD drive with the Duo. I need to burn floppy disk and write on it a WinImage or HFVExplorer programm ? I can use a floppy drive in dock station 🙂 Where I can find a instruction about install Mac os from floppy on this dinosaur ? 🙂
Posted by: raoulduke on 2015-06-18 17:10:27 The installer will have instructions. You need some way to get media from the internet to your machine. I will send you a PM and you can explore.
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