On Nov 10, 2:10 pm, Ben Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Simon,
> The MDD has a special version of 9.2.2 that has specific drivers for the
> hardware (a special mac rom file among other things) this is because the
> MDD came out AFTER 9.2.2 and the retail versions don't have the required
> drivers (as far as I know this is the only OS9 bootable Mac that cannot
> use the retail 9.x installer) if you have just copied the 9.2.2 system
> from your Pismo then it will probably work OK as a Classic folder but
> not if you try to boot from it, one way round this is to use a HDD on
> the second IDE bus (the 66MHZ one) as the primary 100MHZ bus is the one
> that requires a new driver, that would boot OK but not see any drives on
> the primary bus.
Would it see an external FW drive?
This is beginning to look like a discussion for another list; but how
do I know which of the three HDDs installed in my computer, if any, is
on the second bus?...a look in the System Profiler doesn't help.
> The best thing is to install 9.2.2 from the original MDD disks then
> manually copy over what you need (Apple has an updated restore utility
> letting you use the disks in 10.4 as the one on the CD only works up to
> 10.3x)
> I cannot find the link to the updated restore utility on Apple's support
> site, but if you have the original CD's then I think I have a copy of
> the utility I could e-mail you.
> Ben.
Thanks Ben, the person who sold me the MDD didn't use OS9 and doesn't
have the original disks, but if I am able to purchase them somewhere
I'll take you up on that offer.
Simon
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