I own two powerbooks:
-a powerbook 520
-a powerbook duo 230
A few months ago i found a japanese language kit that was made by apple. It was the complete set of 15 disks and were not damaged. I first proceeded to install it on the 520 but when the setup failed i got confused. I then shut off the powerbook to go to work and when i came back later that day the strangest thing happened.
I turned on the powerbook and it showed the happy mac but then a moment later the screen filled with lines and squares for a second then a moment after that i saw the question mark disk. Since i was running os 7.5.3 i am no longer able to use my emergency disks besides my os 8 emergency disk.
A week later i tried the install on my duo while docked and this time halfway through the install the power supply inside my dock failed and the computer shut down. Again, i got the same strange bootup problem as before and since my dock is dead i no longer have access using a floppy drive.
is there a way to boot up a mac with a floppy and allow files to be transferred via local talk or am i in serious trouble.
-a powerbook 520
-a powerbook duo 230
A few months ago i found a japanese language kit that was made by apple. It was the complete set of 15 disks and were not damaged. I first proceeded to install it on the 520 but when the setup failed i got confused. I then shut off the powerbook to go to work and when i came back later that day the strangest thing happened.
I turned on the powerbook and it showed the happy mac but then a moment later the screen filled with lines and squares for a second then a moment after that i saw the question mark disk. Since i was running os 7.5.3 i am no longer able to use my emergency disks besides my os 8 emergency disk.
A week later i tried the install on my duo while docked and this time halfway through the install the power supply inside my dock failed and the computer shut down. Again, i got the same strange bootup problem as before and since my dock is dead i no longer have access using a floppy drive.
is there a way to boot up a mac with a floppy and allow files to be transferred via local talk or am i in serious trouble.