20 Jun
2016
20 Jun
'16
2:53 p.m.
Due to the news about the MacOS name change, it's
becoming quite hard to
Google for older MacOS stuff. Was it ever possible to netboot MacOS 8.1 or
earlier? I have A/UX 3 running nicely on a Quadra 700, now, but now I want
to dual boot it with MacOS, but I don't have a CDROM. Taking out the drive
and putting it on my other 68k Mac (a Centris 660AV) and installing MacOS
still gives me some weird issues that I suspect are related to having
installed it on different hardware.
If I can't do a network based install, I'll probably just steal a longer
SCSI cable, use a molex power splitter to add another 5V power cable, and
then install from CDROM while the system is half-open. Then I'll just
button it up afterwards. The factor SCSI cable in my Quadra 700 has only
one connector for a drive.
In short: no.
In long: NetBoot requires a G4 or a late G3, and that would imply pretty
much only 8.6 and up.
You *can* netboot a *IIgs* from an AppleShare server (over LocalTalk),
and I have in fact done that myself, but I've never seen this functionality
on a 68K Mac or 60x Power Mac and the ROM doesn't know how.
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