>From: Robyn Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>It may be an incompatibility with your CD-ROM drive. The OSX CD tends to
>be rather picky about the drive. Not all drives will boot OS9/OSX. To
>confuse people even more, some will boot OS9 but not OSX. Short of
>getting a really good friend to loan you drive to test, I'm not sure of
>a way around this. Anyone else want to wager a guess?

There is a way around this that should work.   I've done this several times.

Make a 660 MB or so partition on your hard drive.   Use Apple Software 
Restore under OS 9 to copy the entire OS X install CD to that partition, and 
then use XPostFacto to boot from that.   This has the side benefit of making 
the install go *much* faster than when booting from the stock S900 8X drive 
- especially if you have a second physical drive to put the boot CD image 
onto!

HTH,

Dan


>
>-Robyn
>On Friday, July 19, 2002, at 10:30  PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Fruitfly,
> > In XPF after I press the install button it copies all the files in
> > needs to,
> > then it reboots and after awhile of that screen the broken incon
> > appears. No
> > matter how many times I try to restart the computer i get the same
> > results.

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