I've made boot discs for years, of systems from 7.5.1 through 9.1, and I've never had a problem, except when I forget to click on the "bootable" box. I hadn't done it in quite some time, and the first one, last week wouldn't boot. Turns out I didn't make the temp partition (which you need to do) and so I couldn't 'check' the "bootable" option. To be honest, for this proceedure, the manual stinks. I had to piece the information together. What speed are you trying to burn this at? Have you tried a slower speed? If you've done all this, then I can only say either your burner is bad, your boot CD drive is bad, your media is cheap, or the burner and CD-Rom drives are off slightly in opposite directions. That is one of the reasons I do this, to have an emergency disk, with Nortons and a number of other tools on hand.
STeve << I copyd straight at my neigbours on his PC all mac OS disks (copymode he has one player and one burner) and they worked almost better than the original - then I tried when I got a burner to create a Mac Volume and make it bootable and I gave up after having made 10 discs of wich none would boot - no matter what method was used, there are several in the toast help, they did not boot on system 7.6.1 machine, and that was the purpose, 8.x booted better but still not okay - the reason was that I wanted to have Norton as well as a copy of the system on the same cd. ?? >> -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
