Great Thanks Howie! It's nut but I never bother to try to just run the disk off the desktop and it's fine!
I appreciate your help, it was getting a little hairy there for a while... ;-) on 11/6/02 5:38 AM, Howie S at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
