Help with burning OS Install CD's & best practices + getting them to boot

[ClassicII]

Hey Guys,

I have been trying to get an old powerbook g3 PDQ with out a cd up and running with version 8.1 or 8.6.  While I try and track down a cd rom for the unit I was able to slave the HD to another mac and install OS 8 and that worked great only to find out that it required 8.1.

So I tried to find an os 8.1 ISO and tried to burn it with toast on 4x speed but can't get it the 2nd mac to boot from it like I can the retail disc. 

Is it the kind of cd's I am using ? is it a bad ISO? Maybe I just need to find a retail disc and save the hassle.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[l008com]

Try with the 8.5 disk image (link in my sig). 

Also you can skip the disk burning process if you can partition another volume on one of these Macs, then image the contents of the disk image to that. Doing that with these older Macs might be more of a hassle though, you can't add and delete partitions easily like you can now.

 

[ClassicII]

Try with the 8.5 disk image (link in my sig). 

Also you can skip the disk burning process if you can partition another volume on one of these Macs, then image the contents of the disk image to that. Doing that with these older Macs might be more of a hassle though, you can't add and delete partitions easily like you can now.

Wow what a great site!

Going to give the 8.5 disk image a shot thank you.