[geeks] 0000000F 0000000C (pronounced "oooh fok")

Bill Bradford geeks at sunhelp.org
Wed Aug 29 21:13:40 CDT 2001


On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:12:43PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
>     If I get a MacOS CD, do I just put it in the CD-ROM drive and power-up?

Hold down "C" at boot (for "cdrom boot").

>     Is there a "best" software release for this box? (considering the
>     specialty hardware installed) 7.X? 8.0?

I'd say the latest 8.x you can get.  

>     Anyone have an old copy of the OS available? AFAIK it looks like
>     Apple considers all software before OS 8.1 obsolete, and disk images 
>     can be downloaded, but only on Mac boxes, so I don't think there is
>     a license concern - am I correct?

Correct - there's no licensing issue.  They dont care about pre-8.1.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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