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<blockquote data-quote="Papalapa" data-source="post: 1802563" data-attributes="member: 400766">After hours of work completely dissasembling, cleaning, restoring keyboard tracks with permanent pencil, replacing some on-board capacitors, replacing the ejection mechanism of the floppy drive, replacing the ball of the mouse and installing a Farallon network card now I'm proud to own a working Macintosh LC II <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I installed the MacOS 7.5 using floppies but now I want to upgrade to 7.5.3 and I can't do that. The MacOS 7.5.3 is a file image of 43MB file and I have no way to copy this image to the Macintosh LCII. Although it has a network card I was not able to connect to the router of my home network at the moment (this will be another post) and the only communcation way that it has with the external world is the 1.44MB floppy. I know that 7.5.3 is intended to install as an &quot;upgrade&quot;, has not boot diskette and needs to have an MacOS already installed in the computer so, there's no way to install it using a floppy set as 7.5.Anyone knows how can I install MacOS 7.5.3 on my 80MB hard disk, 10MB RAM Macintosh LCII?Thank you!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Papalapa, post: 1802563, member: 400766"] After hours of work completely dissasembling, cleaning, restoring keyboard tracks with permanent pencil, replacing some on-board capacitors, replacing the ejection mechanism of the floppy drive, replacing the ball of the mouse and installing a Farallon network card now I'm proud to own a working Macintosh LC II :) I installed the MacOS 7.5 using floppies but now I want to upgrade to 7.5.3 and I can't do that. The MacOS 7.5.3 is a file image of 43MB file and I have no way to copy this image to the Macintosh LCII. Although it has a network card I was not able to connect to the router of my home network at the moment (this will be another post) and the only communcation way that it has with the external world is the 1.44MB floppy. I know that 7.5.3 is intended to install as an "upgrade", has not boot diskette and needs to have an MacOS already installed in the computer so, there's no way to install it using a floppy set as 7.5. Anyone knows how can I install MacOS 7.5.3 on my 80MB hard disk, 10MB RAM Macintosh LCII? Thank you! [/QUOTE]

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