on 11/6/02 11:58 AM, John Kovacs at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried every thing, searched the web, lowend mac, everything, can't find a > way for my Supermac S900i to boot from my MAC OS 8.5 install disk. Can > somebody help me?
Assuming that you have the original Matsushita CDROM drive in your S900 (like most do), it requires a different driver than most of Apple's Install CD's contain. Keeping in mind that booting from a CD involves reading the CD driver off of the CD being booted from. The Matsushita CDROM drive needs Apple CDROM 5.3.1, or Intech CD SpeedTools, or FWB CDRT, etc.. (Apple's 5.3.1 driver was from back in the Mac OS 7.6 days, but works fine on later Systems too) Anything that came after that old 5.3.1 driver, like the one included with OS 8.5, won't work. If you have an external device you can boot from, hard drive, Zip, whatever, boot from that, and (providing a Matsushita compatible CD driver is installed in the System Folder on that device), insert the 8.5 CD and install onto your internal hard drive. You don't have to be booted from the Apple CD to run it's installer. -HS -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:supermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:supermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:supermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
