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lovingbothOK, how about a Mac OS 8.1 CD-ROM?
The bloody thing is currently declining to boot properly, despite being fine before it was left for a week. 'Happy Mac' and the desktop come up ok, but trying to display a menu locks it up with a blank space where the menu should be. Ditto with opening a folder.
There are some 7.5.x floppy disks here, but 'obviously' that doesn't allow you to use the floppy drive for anything else... including getting a ROM image so I can run a Mac emulator on the PC.
I'm guessing that there's a fonty problem somewhere (the blank menus) but when I boot up with a 7.5.x floppy and click on the HD's 7.1 Control Panels / View, it complains that the setting for font size should be a number - it is!? Are the settings that I can eventually change there being saved to the floppy? Where on the floppy?
The bloody thing is currently declining to boot properly, despite being fine before it was left for a week. 'Happy Mac' and the desktop come up ok, but trying to display a menu locks it up with a blank space where the menu should be. Ditto with opening a folder.
There are some 7.5.x floppy disks here, but 'obviously' that doesn't allow you to use the floppy drive for anything else... including getting a ROM image so I can run a Mac emulator on the PC.
I'm guessing that there's a fonty problem somewhere (the blank menus) but when I boot up with a 7.5.x floppy and click on the HD's 7.1 Control Panels / View, it complains that the setting for font size should be a number - it is!? Are the settings that I can eventually change there being saved to the floppy? Where on the floppy?
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Date: 2002-04-22 01:17 am (UTC)I've got 8.1 on my Mac - I bought it with 8.0 and had to download 8.1 in 13 disk-sized segments off Apple's site. I've had minor font issues with my menus, mainly when a certain app is run on the machine (menus and items in Eudora show up in a different font to normal) but it doesn't seem to affect the running of the machine. I'm wondering about upgrading to 8.6 but I don't know if it's worth it (and I don't believe it's a free download).
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Date: 2002-04-22 10:27 am (UTC)Are the 8.1 images still on Apple's ftp site?
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Date: 2002-04-23 05:32 am (UTC)I will check. If you need them I can arrange to get them to you somehow, if it'll help.
Are you doing a complete re-install or just trying a fix?