My Reply follows quote. On 04/12/2003 06:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Gary F. Daught on 12/1/03 6:39 PM wrote: > >> Greetings. Thanks for the lead to OS9Helper! I have now successfully >> installed 9.2.2 on my PowerBook 3400c. Everything appears to be working >> fine EXCEPT (ironically) the issue I first asked about: I still cannot >> boot a CD that has an OS 9.2.x system. Of course, as I thought this >> through, the modification of the system on the HARD DRIVE would have no >> effect on a CD boot (Duh!). I was most interested in this so I could >> perform a hard drive defrag using Speed Doctor on Norton SystemWorks 2. >> I can run DiskDoctor and TechTool from the CD loaded after startup. But >> you cannot defrag a startup disk. Any work-around? Thanks. >> > >OS9.2.x is for G3 and newer machines and as you found out, won't install or >run on pre-G3 without a workaround such as the one you used. Not sure what >the benefits would even be, but I suppose there might be a few. > >Here's one thing you might try if you have another Mac you can network with. >Pop the utility CD into you other Mac and share it. Then boot the 3400 from >an OS9.x CD, connect to the other Mac, and mount that CD to the 3400 >desktop. Then you should be able to run the desired utility from there. > >You might also find an external CD-ROM drive to mount the utility CD (again >after booting from another CD). > >Or it might be easier to pick up an earlier utility CD that the 3400 will >boot from. OWC has a Norton System works v1.0 for just $9 (bundled with som >other stuff). That might be easier than jumping through all the hoops for >the above workarounds. > >Check here: ><http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=5100&Item=SYM072600421BQ> > >-Mark ----------- Can you put the 3400 into SCSI Disk Mode with another Mac that will run SysWks 2?
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