Hello Mac-ians

[lovingboth]

Is there anything to watch out for when upgrading a 68k Mac (a Centris 610, as it happens) from the System 7.1 to 7.5.3 (the last free downloadable OS on apple.com as far as I can see) ?

Is it simply a matter of pointing it at the files and it'll all be fine or is there a risk of a Windows-style upgrade hell?

Comments

[aegidian]

It probably needs its battery replacing too. Go with the advice here, don't run 7.5.3 on the poor thing.

Have you considered trading it for something less doorstop-like, you can pick up early power-Macs for under ?100 and run OS8.1 (next small and stable OS after 7.1).

Alternatively run one of the 68K 'nixes on it. Then you can have an actual modern OS.

[barakta]

yeh good idea, hadn't thought about PRAM battery, easily replaceable it will take a 3.6 (I think, can check) V half AA size battery cost between 3 and 6 quid depending what brand you get.....

I have never seen any of the 68knixes, but probably ought to check them out since I now have a pile of small harddrives and only 1 working 68k mac ;/ these days....

system 8.1 is nice, 7.5.3 was a pile of pants, I'm glad I have managed to get the old powerbook 1400cs to get 8,1 on it (the 8.0 cd is fucked..... none of thenetworking stuff will install properly so u have to install stuff in batched... makes a standard install look easy and fun ;) )

If I was to go for a 68nix, which would you recommend, I tried to get Yellowdog on the G4 but that failed miserably, probly cos I'm not yet up on my linux.... I'm installing OSX when I have 5 mins ;))))) and am going to use Red Hat on my pc too ;)

Laterz
Natalya - off to be killed by 2 hrs of audio...

[aegidian]

I think OpenBSD has a 68k build.

68K nixen

[aegidian]

http://www.openbsd.org/30.html

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/

http://www.mklinux.org/

http://www.uk.debian.org/ports/m68k/

[lovingboth]

There's part of me that think's it's very amusing for a 70s OS to be described as more modern than the 90s version of a 80s one, but... :)

Although the scheme has pots of money in the bank, I don't think they'd go for it. My current idea is to extract the data and do the admin via a website.

[aegidian]

OS 7.1 was last updated when exactly? Compared to any of the nixen kernels or micro kernels.

What a spurious argument, I'm disappointed in you ::pout::

Seriously, pick a distro and I can get a download and burn off some install CDs for you.

[lovingboth]

I know it's a spurious argument! It just appealed to my silly sense of humour ::gentle stroke::

The CD-ROM with this one is an external one, and someone else has it for a reason I'm not entirely sure about. Once I've got my paws on it, I've exported the data so there's space on the hard drive, and the LETS system is running on something else, I'll take you up on that, thanks.

Is it possible to run both MacOS and these?

[barakta]

whoa lots of replies!!! :)))

err i guess u must be able to dual partition the drive - but that would depend on its size, the chances are it could have a small HDD (depends...) but yeh i guess u could dual boot, but don't ask me, I know not enuf about linuxes.....

As to those disks, if you email me a postal address to send them to I'll sort it next weekend when I am back at my parents house..... They're all in my room o computer crap ;)
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my email address is barakta@willow.dyndns.org

Laterz
Natalya