Hi all,
I appreciate any help I can get, I have a bit of experience with my older Turbo which I sold due to a lack of space, but since I moved I have a spare room which I can use for some tinkering, so....
I have just gotten a "new" Nextstation, but it's rather bare at the moment. It has 16MB of RAM and an 100 MB hard drive which is almost full (10MB free). I have a couple of questions:
- How much space should a blank install of NEXTSTEP 3.3 take up? Including the few bundled apps... is this the 90 MB i'm seeing?
- Could the machine accomodate the 800MB hard drive in my Power Macintosh 7100? How about memory, can I transplant some or find some more RAM elsewhere? (Macintosh Classic II?)
- if so, is there any guide on how to install NEXTSTEP 3.3 on it, I guess I need a boot floppy and a NEXTSTEP CD (I have a working one right here, plus a working and tested SCSI CDROM).
I hope to hear from you all soon! Good to be back!
Here's a quick update:
I figured that by swapping out the hard disk I'm not breaking anything I can't easily undo, so I took the SCSI hard drive out of the Power Macintosh 7100 (turned out to be 500MB) and put it in the slab.
After finding the right boot floppy (3.3 Moto boot) I easily installed NEXTSTEP 3.3 and a few apps. The slab just got a lot faster and more useful.
Next project: hooking up a wireless access point and figuring out how to get the show online and on my home network again!
** update 22/3 ** It's online and I've used news, IRC and browsed the forums using OmniWeb!
- One question remains: what classic macs use the same memory as my Nextstation?[/b]