> >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.
Do you? I've never run 7.6.1 on my 4000, and never had the original system CD since I bought it used. The only problem I have ever had relating to CD Rom drivers was with my recently installed Sony CDRW asking me to eject or initialize a non-existent CD, and that problem went away the moment I upgraded to OS 9.1. Craig -- 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>
