>Hi, > At my works amongst our various Macintosh clones we have 8 >StarMax 3000 / 180 fitted with 32mb of RAM or greater. We have just >recently purchased a MAC OS 9.1 full install disk and wish to install it >to these Clones. If successful we will invest money to upgrade the >memory to get these machines in a usable configuration. > The problem I am facing is I cannot get these macs to boot from >the CD? Holding down the C key or selecting the start-up disk as Cdrom >causes the machine to show a happy Mac icon and attempt continually to >access the CD but no loading occurs, on removing the disk the hard disk >loads as normal. > On normal booting from the hard disk the cdrom is viewable on >the desktop but install insists it cannot be run so I have to boot form >the disk. The machines we have curently have a varied number of system >installation 7.1 / 7.5 / 7.6 / 8.0 and it wound be nice if we can get >them all to the same level / state. > > What I am wondering is how can I convince these machines to boot >form the disk so I can install the system software. The disk has been >used successfully to upgrade many iMacs / UMAX Pulsar and UMAX 603e/180 >machines. >
You should be able to install the OS without booting from the CD. Boot as normal and start the installer. Towards the start of the process, there is a window with an 'Options' button. Clicking it brings up a second window with options to 'Update Disk Drivers' and 'Perform a clean install' Make sure the perform a clean install is selected, and the installer will create a new System folder, leaving the old one in place and renaming it to 'Previous System Folder' The only real issue with installing OS 9.x on the StarMax is that you have to either copy the CD-Rom driver from OS 7.6.1, hack the driver in OS 9, or use a 3rd party CD Driver. -- Mr. PopMan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Does anybody want to play a game of pinball?" "Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world." --Grace Paley -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> 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/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
