Old CD drives were pretty picky with burned CDs. I've had mixed luck on
my vintage machines with burns CDs, while they have no trouble with my
retail 8.1 CD. Your best bet is to track a retail CD down.
Also, makes sure you are trying to boot off it (reboot and old down C,
or command-option-shift-delete) and not just sticking it in after
booting. You will need a CD driver installed to for it to mount and show
up after booting. Though, it's pretty easy to track down and install.
As a couple other posters said, 7.5.5 or even 7.1 are probably the best
for this box for actual use. I use a LC475/Q605 daily with 7.5.5 with 68
megs of RAM, runs nicely. I did copy over some stuff like the Appearance
Extension, so I get the pretty OS 8 look. I have a couple 512k VRAM
simms on the way now too, so I'll be able to use 1024x768 at 256 colors.
IMHO, the only reasons to run 8.1 on a 68k is Because You Can (which is
a perfectly valid reason when dealing with hobbies and vintage
computers) or for using big HDs with HFS+.
Scott
On 6/29/2010 10:18 PM, Andrew Simpson wrote:
Oh because the LC currently has 7.1 and doesn't see the 2 burnt cd-r's
that have 8.1 on them.
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Willi Kusche <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi!
On 6/29/10, Andrew wrote:
> I have an external CD drive but I think I lack the drivers to
make it work.
Shouldn't need any.
Willi
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