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Paladin9:
I just picked up a pc compatible power mac 7200/120. It has a 120 MHz power pc 601 and a BIG pci pc card in it with a 100 MHz pentium. I have to wipe the hard drive becuase the software was all fucked up and did not boot. Now i got OS 9.1 on it just fine. Does anyone know how to get windows on it? Does windows use its own partition or does it somehow share the same partition??? HELP
worker201:
Pretty sure Windows is going to need its own partition. Windows doesn't like to share. Plus, the filesystems for Windows and Macintosh are incompatible.
A better question would be "which one do you install first?" Install OS9 and build the Windows partition, and then install Windows? Or install Windows and build the OS9 partition? It all depends on which OS is better able to deal with being installed on a non-primary partition. Linux distros come with partition managers, but I don't think Windows or OS9 do.
An even better question: how do you double boot? Do you use something like grub?
Very interesting project, I hope you have stories for us before you accidentally fry everything.
Paladin9:
I saw another one of these things working. When you boot it, it starts windows too so by the time the mac is done booting, you can switch over to windows by pressing command-enter or somehting.
Since the system was designed by apple to also run windows, i imagine that it is probably easy to get windows on there. It is possible that it came with a special version of the mac os that includes windows 95 or something.
Also keep in mind that macs CAN read DOS partitions, so maybe the who hdd was formated as FAT?
M51DPS:
Maybe if you can find somewhere on the card the company that made it, you can go to the website and find old manuals to help.
Personally, I say you get slackware and see if it will run....
Xeen:
On a related note...
you can run Windows on a Mac (without virtual pc) :eek: :eek: :eek:
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