Burning a bootbale OS 9.1 installer from Mojave

[superpantoufle]

Hi there,

It's been such a long time since my last visit around here... It's a pleasure to be back! I haven't spent time with my collection in years, but it's changing. I'll have to hang around here more often soon!

I need a fresh system for an iBook FireWire. I just burned a couple of Mac OS 9.1 install disc from DiskCopy 6.3 and Toast images I had in my archive. The disc burned from the Toast image wasn't bootable. The disk burned from the DiskCopy 6.3 image booted to the Finder, then complained that the Desktop Folder was locked. As far as I know, both images were made from a retail CD-Rom, but I can't be 100% sure.

I managed to do my clean install from another machine with the iBook in Target mode. But for future reference, what's the best way to create a bootable CD from DC63 and/or Toast images? Or what's the best way to make those images bootbale? Those are things I knew back in the day, but sadly my memory fails me. My main machine is a Mac running Mojave, and I have access to several Macs running flavors of classic Mac OS and early Mac OS X.

 

[Cory5412]

I have been using a Windows machine to image MacOS install CDs using imgburn or infrarecorder - I believe they both work, to be honest. I have been able to burn those images back and get a bootable result. If you want US/English, you are welcome to what I've got at http://personal.stenoweb.net/oldmac/

One other possibilities, and I should try to test this soon, is to make a CD master image of the drive itself in Disk Utility on a modern Mac. I think that will produce an image that can be burned, and then renamed to .iso for burning on Windows/Linux with the relevant tools.

Idly, if anyone has a working copy and the ability to image it, I scratched the burned copy I made years ago and now I need a new eMac 2003 9.2.2 CD. Try as I might, I just can't get the toast image of it from MacGarden to produce a bootable burn.

 

[LaPorta]

I've done the above. Let me try again and I will verify.