[rescue] Quadra 840av questions

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 02:10:17AM -0500, Jeff Borisch wrote:
> Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > What are these .smi.bin files I keep seeing.  For instance, one is
> 
> .bin is just an encoding format like .uu
> It needs to be unencoded first. You likely need a working mac to do this.
> 
> The .smi means self mounting image.
> Basically you just double click the file and it appears on the desktop like
> a mounted disk. The installer is on this mounted volume. You will nee to get
> these files on an initialized HDD and boot from a floppy. If it's not easy
> finding a floppy image I can help out with that.

Hmm.  So, if I'm running MacOS 7.6, and I open images for installing MacOS 
7.0.1, is it going to be friendly with me?  All I can seem to find is 7.0,
6.x stuff, and I think I see something that allows me to upgrade to 7.5.  I
want either 7.5.x or 7.1.  I don't know which.  I know that 7.1 will work, but
I think 7.5.x might be better, if it would actuall work.  The most important 
thing though is that I need Quicktime 2.0, and I need to be able to talk over
the ethernet to a file server.
 
> > I think the CD-ROM I have in my 840av is bad because I tried setting it to
> > what I believe is SCSI ID 6, and still it isn't working (the scsi ID pins
> > are labeled 0, 1, and 2.  I have pin 0 off, and pins 1 and 2 on).  I don't
> > currently have any other CD-Roms to try with it... Wait, I just realized
> > that the 7100 has a CD-Rom in it.  Maybe it will work...
> 
> another thing to try is setting it to ID3. that is the mac default. It
> shouldn't make a diff. but worth a try.

I'll try it.  Am I right that ID3 equals a pin on the 1st and 2nd ID pins,
 and none on the 3rd pin (the 1st and second pins being the ones labeled 0 
and 1).
 
> I'm not a guru either, at this point I would be giving the mac a static ip
> if that is possible in your situation. I'm sure the solution is an
> interesting one though!

I'll try that.  How do I figure out if it is working?  I'm sitting at the
linux machine pinging the IP I gave the mac, and I'm getting nothing.  I'm
going to try a different AAUI unit..  Still nothing.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd