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
> 


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