On 18-09-2003, "Tekno Liber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have just bought a second hand G3 and when I asked >for the system CD the guy could only give me a copy of >Mac OS 9 as hed lost the original (or whatever)... > >My problem is that when I try to boot from the CD (9.2) >it gets as far as displaying the desktop background and >then it stops as it cannot create a desktop database (or >that's what I recall it said). As it's a second hand machine >with lots of junk on it I want to reformat the drive and >reinstall, not just do a clean install and junk the old >System folder.
It looks like the CD doesn't contain a desktop database (and it can't create one off course). >How do I recreate a bootable CD from this one ? I have >Toast 5 which from what I can see is different from >version 4 in that there used to be a check box for >bootable and that was it... Check the help in Toast 5/ Click on "Making Data CDs" / then "Making a Bootable CD in Data Format". In short you have to just drag the System Folder from your CD to your Desktop, open Toast, select MacOS CD as the format, drop the (blessed) System Folder into Toast and burn, it will make it bootable by itself. BTW that checkbox you were looking for is still there, hehe I couldn't find it myself at first. If you have a disk image (DiskCopy/ Toast etc) with a System Folder on it mount it, select Mac Volume as the format in Toast (you'll find it by Others), drop the volume into Toast, then you'll see a new button there called "Select", there is where you can select the bootable option for your volume :-) Marc * * -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
