[rescue] Quadra 840av questions

[Jeff Borisch]

Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> What are these .smi.bin files I keep seeing.  For instance, one is

.bin is just an encoding format like .uu
It needs to be unencoded first. You likely need a working mac to do this.


The .smi means self mounting image.
Basically you just double click the file and it appears on the desktop like
a mounted disk. The installer is on this mounted volume. You will nee to get
these files on an initialized HDD and boot from a floppy. If it's not easy
finding a floppy image I can help out with that.

> I think the CD-ROM I have in my 840av is bad because I tried setting it to
> what I believe is SCSI ID 6, and still it isn't working (the scsi ID pins
> are labeled 0, 1, and 2.  I have pin 0 off, and pins 1 and 2 on).  I don't
> currently have any other CD-Roms to try with it... Wait, I just realized
> that the 7100 has a CD-Rom in it.  Maybe it will work...

another thing to try is setting it to ID3. that is the mac default. It
shouldn't make a diff. but worth a try.

> Ack.  I have no idea what this means.  I reset the switch and NFS, SMB, SSH,
> telnet, httpd, IPX, etc work fine on it between assorted suns, linux machines,
> and windows machines.  I'm not much of a networking guru.  If I move the Mac
> to a hub attached to the switch (the Hub having a pair of linux machines on
> it, but not the DHCP server), would this prevent the port blocking thing
> you describe?  I'll try it just in case...  Nope didn't work.  Now trying
> moving the DHCP server to the hub also...  Nope, didn't convince the Mac
> to pick up DHCP either.

I'm not a guru either, at this point I would be giving the mac a static ip
if that is possible in your situation. I'm sure the solution is an
interesting one though!

best,
jeffrey