You can update OS8 to OS8.1 without booting to the CD. However, in order to boot from a CD, you'll need to create a CD with a system folder on it. Which means installing a system folder on a CD.
It's been a while, but IIRC, you can use Toast to create a blank read/write CD image. Then you mount the image and install a minimum system folder on it and add the other files you need to the disk image. Then use Toast to create the CD. (In the older versions of Toast, there was a preference setting that allowed you to check "Bootable CD." I don't know if this is still valid or not. I think that any CD with a valid system folder can be booted, but I could be wrong.) rob Tyson Schmick wrote: > I haven't done any updates from Mac OS 8 to 8.1 like that, but I have > downloaded 9.1 and 9.2 and updating 9 from a burned CD. I just copied the > file I downloaded from Apple's website onto the CD, then double clicked it, > expanded it on the desktop of the machine I was updating and then ran it > from the hard drive. Like I said, I'm not sure if this works the same in OS > 8, but did for OS 9, so it should be worth a shot. > > Tyson > ~~~~~ > > On 1/29/04 7:00 AM, "Carlos Nazario" <pooh102 at earthlink.net> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am wanting to update an older computer that I installed 8.0 on. It > > doesn't have a reliable internet connection so I want to download the > > software on mine and burn it to disk so I can install it on the other. > > > > Is there some sort of trick to making startup disks for this sort of > > purpose? > > > > > > Any and all help will be appreciated. > > > > > > Carlos > > > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > > | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
