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In article <1996Mar20.204929.583@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
ttha@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Thatcher) wrote:

> In <Douglas.K.Eldred-2003960900360001@129.179.91.117>
Douglas.K.Eldred@cdc.com (Doug Eldred) writes:
> 
> >>I just bought a  powermac 9500 clone (Powerwave 604/132) and I cannot load
> >>NUM 3.2.1 into the machine.  Installation is always unsuccessful.
> >>Furthermore, the Norton emergency disk will not boot the machine at all. I
> >>haven't read or heard any discussion on this, but maybe I'm just out of
> >>the loop. Anyone know anything about this?  I have tried calling Symantec,
> 
> You should have a bootable system CD-ROM that came with your computer.
> Put the various parts of Norton you want on a floppy and boot from the
> CD and run the programs from the floppy.
> 
> Norton tried to design their startup disk builder to work with future
> system developments but I'm not surprised it doesn't work for everyone.
> Exactly how should they write a program to be fully compatible with a
> version of the MacOS not released until 2 years after the original program?
> 
The Norton Emergency Disk 3.2.1 contains system 7.1 and of coures cannot
boot a machine that requires System 7.5.2.

You can build a suitable startup disk if you have a ZipDrive or SyQuest,
or Optical.

Just choose "other" for your system when asked.

FWIW

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