Help! Performa 6214CD boot

#1 Wed May 28, 2008 4:42 pm Help! Performa 6214CD boot

Hi all!

I was packing things to move to a new house when I found my oooold performa 6214CD in the bottom of the shelf. I was ready to throw it way when I thought on the waste I was doing!

So I pluged in the socket and ... it still works after all these years ... at least to a degree.

The hard disk is dead. So I replaced with a used (but function) one. Obviosly it doesn't boot (the disk was from a PC!) so I played arround in Basilisk and made some boot disks from "Network Access Disk" and "Disk tools PPC", but none worked. It sayed that the disks are too old for my hardware and I needed to "update with the Installer".
The problem is that I don't have the original disks nor the boot CD.

Any ideias in how to boot and install MacOS ?

Thanks in advance.
csilva

#2 Wed May 28, 2008 8:44 pm

The easiest way would be to acquire a real Mac OS CD. That model is roughly the equivalent of the Power Macintosh 6200, and requires System 7.5.1 or later. You can download System 7.5.3 as a multi-park disk image, but then you have the problem of getting that bootably onto the Mac, so finding an actual Mac OS CD (7.5.1 or later,) is your best bet.

eBay has them often. (That Mac will run 7.5.1 through 9.1.)

#3 Thu May 29, 2008 1:44 pm

Hello again, and thanks for your help.

Yep, that's a good solution. Unfortunatly I don't know if the CDROM is working (and have no way of knoing without and OS), besides the cdrom is SCSI and it's not easy to find one where I live.

Let's cross every bridge when we get there.

Step 1 - Boot the computer.
Is it possible to boot my performa with a bootdisk ? Where can I get it ?

After the computer is booted, it's possible to partition/format the new hardrive to hfs and copy (that 19 disks) the instalation, and instal it.

Thanks again for your help.
csilva

#4 Thu May 29, 2008 11:32 pm

Hello & welcome!

You could try Disk Tools PPC (based off a stripped down version of Mac OS 8 for PowerPC-based Macs). You can find it here:
http://www.alksoft.com/personal/stuff.html

Give that a try for formatting your hard drive as HFS (or HFS+).

Peace,
Drew

Power to the PowerPC!

#5 Thu May 29, 2008 11:56 pm

Hey, alk, I just noticed you're a Lockheed engineer in Aurora! I have a couple friends from college that work at Lockheed, one in Aurora. How many engineers are at that facility? (I'll ask that before I ask if you know him. :-p)

edit: Whoops, nevermind... The person in Aurora isn't with Lockheed. The two with Lockheed are both in California. (And just to make you jealous, one is at the Skunk Works.)

#6 Fri May 30, 2008 8:45 am

Time to update the resume, I suppose. I don't work there anymore...

csilva, any luck with that Disk Tools image?

Peace,
Drew

Power to the PowerPC!

#7 Fri May 30, 2008 2:47 pm

Hi all. Hi alk, general sir!

YES!
The disk tools ppc 8.1 WORKS !
Just did a quick boot, I haven't initialized the disk yet, but it WORKS!

Didn't responde earlier because i'm on the GMT time line, so i'm just back from work, getting ready for a nice meal.

Thank you all.
I'll keep you posted has I go along!

Once again thank you from Portugal
csilva

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