> I found CDRs work in some drives but not others. Something in or out of > spec. If you have a CD burner, or a friend does, trying cloning the disk > and seeing if the copy works. > > Otherwise, can you access the 8500s CD drive through your network from the > iMac? If you can do it under VPC, problem solved. If not, copy all the > files via your network to the iMac with MacOS and then run VPC and try to > install from the iMac hard disk -- should work, most installers don't care > where they are started from. I've done this on PC with dodgy CDs that work > intermittently. > > If space is a problem, look at the files, there may be junk (clipart, > promos, etc) that you don't need, at least to get it running.
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