PowerBook 540c issues installing Mac OS 8.1
Hello,
I have a PowerBook 540c with 36 MB RAM and 512 MB hard drive.
It had Mac OS 7.6 on it, but kept freezing randomly while using, so I figured I'd reinstall the OS.
I got a copy of Mac OS 8.1 (since I see that this is the max supported OS), and it's on CD Rom. So I connected an external CD Rom via SCSI and it's booting to the install disk OK. But everything about the install is taking about 30 times longer than I would expect.
I tried finishing the process last night and it stalled halfway through installation. did not continue past.
I've never used SCSI aside from this, so not sure if it's expected or not. But does it really take 12 hours to install 200 megabytes of data from a SCSI CD-ROM onto a PowerBook 540c?
To be sure it wasn't corrupt data on my hard disk, I zeroed all data on the hard drive before initializing and did a low-level format. I changed the SCSI ID from 3 to 2, reset the power manager, and rebooted to the SCSI drive, but it's still sluggish.
This is purely a hobby, no big deal. I'm just curious if external SCSI CD-ROM installs are normal to go this slowly, or if my machine is possibly causing the issue?
I have a PowerBook 540c with 36 MB RAM and 512 MB hard drive.
It had Mac OS 7.6 on it, but kept freezing randomly while using, so I figured I'd reinstall the OS.
I got a copy of Mac OS 8.1 (since I see that this is the max supported OS), and it's on CD Rom. So I connected an external CD Rom via SCSI and it's booting to the install disk OK. But everything about the install is taking about 30 times longer than I would expect.
I tried finishing the process last night and it stalled halfway through installation. did not continue past.
I've never used SCSI aside from this, so not sure if it's expected or not. But does it really take 12 hours to install 200 megabytes of data from a SCSI CD-ROM onto a PowerBook 540c?
To be sure it wasn't corrupt data on my hard disk, I zeroed all data on the hard drive before initializing and did a low-level format. I changed the SCSI ID from 3 to 2, reset the power manager, and rebooted to the SCSI drive, but it's still sluggish.
This is purely a hobby, no big deal. I'm just curious if external SCSI CD-ROM installs are normal to go this slowly, or if my machine is possibly causing the issue?
iMac 20" early 2008, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
