Quadra 700 & PPC 8.5 Enabler Issues

champagneandchips

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I added a Sonnet PPC card to a Quadra 700 and am now struggling with the MacOS 8.5 installation. The 8.5 system is installed, and I'm trying to follow the post installation instructions which require two files from a startup floppy that came with the card to be dragged onto the hard drive, after booting the system from that very same floppy disk:
  1. Presto PPC 8.5 Enabler into the System Folder
  2. 601 Processor Upgrade control panel to Control Panels
Whenever I attempt any of these, I get an error saying "There is not enough room" on the target disk and that an additional 786.7MB (in the case of hr Enabler) is needed. Rubbish - it has almost 3GB left! (It's on a BlueSCSI partition). I can't copy these files onto any other of my "hard drives" either (no matter where) with the same error message.

Any idea what would be causing that?

I do have a "MacPartition" drive which has an A/UX startup partition on it, which I seem to be able to copy them on just fine.

Thanks so much!