At 10:22 AM -0700 8/18/2000, Jennifer Gwirtz wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm stuck...
>
>We have a visiting professor who has inherited a Performa 6115. I
>tried, misguidedly, to upgrade it to system 7.6.1, so that it can
>run a later version of Netscape (it had 1.1 on it, believe it or
>not,). There are no docs and no system disks available for this
>computer in our department.
>
>It went permanently off line, and nothing I can do changes that.
>(I've adjusted IP addresses, TCP-IP settings, ethernet, etc)
>
>I looked on the TIL and found out that it's possible that Open
>Transport 1.1.2 and later are NOT compatible with this strange,
>hybrid antique. On the other hand, there is very little mentioned on
>the TIL about this Performa family, as if Apple is denying its
>parentage.
>
If I'm not mistaken, there is very little difference between the
Performa 61xx computers and those with the label PowerMacintosh 6100.
I think your problem with installing 7.6.1 would have to be related
to something other than the computer being a strange, hybrid antique.
I have installed System 8 on these models with no problem (Open
Transport version is 2 or better).
Does the computer have enough RAM and disk space for the upgrades
you're attempting? If so, I would just use a System 8.6 CD and go
with that. There should be no reason to try to find a CD that was
original for that model.
Hope this helps.
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