Greetings Krishna,
You should find a local Mac owner to help you with your Mac.
If you are going to be asking for help over the net. You will
need to
provide some basic information so that we can help you out.
What is the model of your Mac ?
Does it have a internal or a external CD-ROM drive ?
The model number will tell us which Mac you have and which
version of the
system software you need find a copy of.
There is one good possibility that you probably do not know
about.
Several of the Macs require a working PRAM battery to allow them
to boot up.
If the 1/2 AA 3.6V Lithium battery voltage is 3.1V or less they
will not
boot up. The hard drive and the CD-ROM will spin up. But it will
not boot
up until the PRAM battery is replaced with good battery.
If it is a the PRAM battery you will need a boot disk or a system
CD to
boot the MAc up after the bad battery is replaced.
A good web site for the operating system information and
downloading is
Gamba's web site
<http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/>
For general information on the old Macs. The LEM (LowEnd Macs) a
good web
site to vist:
<http://www.lowendmac.com/>
krishnakumar natarajan wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for your immediate response. As such I am a PC guy and
am
> new to Mac. I have been using linux in pc and now that i have
an
> old mac at home i want to start using it with linux. But
before
> doing that i just want to get used to mac OS which may also
> through some light on understanding the hardware. Anyway i
also
> see that mac needs to do the hardware initialization. So
before i
> start using mac linux i just want my system to be up and may
be on
> the net using mac so that i can download all the linux stuff
in
> it.
>
> And One more thing that i notice is that nothing is displayed
on
> the screen and i am getting only a musical tone and the
system
> stops with a blank screen. My friend says that the musical
tone
> comes only if the system cannot boot.
>
> So I just want to know, whether i can use disk tools disk,
that i
> prepared from the disk tools image i downloaded to boot my
crashed
> Mac OS and repair the OS in Hard disk or should i use the
Network
> boot disk image from floppy to boot the system. I just want
sure
> that my way of trying to get the system up is right and the
> problem is only because of a faulty Floppy Disk.
>
> Regards,
> krishna
>
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 Chris Tillman wrote :
> >On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:51:40AM -0000, krishnakumar
natarajan
> >wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm having a problem with creating Mac 7.0.1 boot disk
from
> >a
> > > PC.
> > > My Mac with system 7.0.1 is not booting up and want to
boot it
> >up
> > > and run disk tools. I got the disk tools image and used
Gem
> > > explorer to copy the disk tools image to a mac formatted
> >floppy
> > > (Formatted using Gemulator in PC) in my PC. But when I
tried
> >to
> > > boot the mac using that disk, it is not booting up. And it
is
> >not
> > > ejecting the disk also. So I think the the floppy is
> >recognised as
> > > a Mac floppy but is not recognised as boot floppy.
> >
> >If it is read but no valid system folder is found, the disk
would
> >be
> >ejected. You would then see a flashing floppy disk icon with
a
> >superimposed question mark (if your hard drive installation
is
> >also
> >failing).
> >
> >If the floppy drive hasn't been used in a while, there's a
good
> >possibility the inside is caked with lint and dust. Get
some
> >canned
> >air and try to clean it out.
> >
> >BTW, do you have Debian installed? You could mount the Mac
> >partition
> > from there to check it out.
> >
> >--
> >"The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what
> >we should do with software engineers. They put the designer
> >under the bridge, and then they marched over it."
> >-- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
> >
>
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If you need more help let me know and I will try and help as muck
as I can.
Beno