Hi Kris and Scott (and everyone else), thanks for your emails, I have attempted to replace the burner with the Sony Apple CD-rom that came with the PowerPC 9500. I wasn't sure how to arange the pins on the back so I copied the way they were set up on the burner. Had to remove the pin for "party" and the "terminator" pin. I don't know what the party term meant, all I could think of were these little "bits" getting wildly drunk and dancing around in there? Anyway, it seemed fine upon start up, even the little icon with the CD and the star burst came up without the question mark! So I re-initalized the HD again to clean it off again so it could go through the XPF process from an empty HD partition (7.5gig). Set the throatle to 24 and engaged XPF to use the 10 cd into the new HD. It went through the process of loading kernals and extensions then "Xbooting" came up and it hung there for a minute or two, then a message, "can not complete your request because of a disk error". The 10 Cd was opened and just to check I opened one of the files and it opened to another set of folders so the CD appears to be working. This is the same CD I had used previously and it had not given me this message before installing this replacement CD-rom (before I replaced the CD-rom it had begun rebooting, then the Apple logo came on and then the code came on ending in "waiting for root message".) So any idea what this "disk error" is refering to and what I can do about it?#$*??
I checked the files that XPF had installed into the HD; there are two, one titled "private" which I didn't touch, the other "system", in which there were 130 items totalling 920k. Does that sound like XPF completed its installation, is there some way to get it now to "reboot" into the 10 CD or is there something else I should do??? Thanks, Jim --- Kris Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday, Sep 28, 2003, at 19:45 America/Chicago, > jim frisino wrote: > > One thing > > I could try would be to replace the Yamaha CD > burner > > with the Apple CD-rom from the PowerPC. Use it and > see > > if it will install 10. But ONE question I would > have, > > could I then re-exchange the CD-roms after > > installation so that I could have the burner back > > again? > > Yes, I think this is reasonable and perhaps doable. > I'm not certain > about the Yahama burner support. Only certain > burners are supported for > OS X Disc Burner in Finder. Some others can be > activated to work by > slightly hacking some code. I've read about this but > never done it. If > you have a third party program like Toast, it will > most likely support > burning for any modern CD Recorder. It won't make it > bootable, but it > should function normally. If you plan on burning > bootable CD's with > Toast, be advised that Apple seems to have pressured > Roxi into removing > the function that allows burning bootable disc's in > Toast Titanium 5.2 > and beyond, so you'd need 4.13 Deluxe (OS9) or 5.0 > or 5.1 Titanium (OS9 > or OSX). It's strange, but I believe that to burn a > bootable OSX disc > you need to be booted in OS 9, and then either burn > an unmounted disc > image or mount it with Disc Copy 6.5b13 (a developer > only issue) and > then burn the mounted image as a Mac Volume > bootable. Perhaps you can > burn bootable OS X discs from Finder with the Burn > command, assuming > your burner is supported. Good luck! Kris > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
