Make OS 9 Bootable CD

[pchristians]

Hi,

I´ve been trying to make a bootable os 9 CD with the appropriate extensions to load a USB PCI card on a 7500. The problem is I have an ADB mouse which is faulty and if I get to make a CD with the PCI USB extension I dont need to buy a new mouse to erase and reinstall the system software when things go wrong.

I used disk copy to make an image of a 9.1 CD (original, boots). Then I Install the appropriate software onto the image. Using toast 7, I then use the copy command. I have also tried to use the Data section of toast.

I havnt been able to make a bootable CD. Reading through forums, one of the common problems is that the system is not blessed. However, in my case, the system icons appear on the burned cd, so I think the system folder is blessed.

On a final note, I am using normal CDRs not CDRWs since I know the cd on that machine does not read CDRws. I use an Intel Imac to burn the cds (10.4.11)

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[equill]

Alternatively, why not boot the 7500 from your Retail OS 9 CD and install the USB support files either by Custom Install or by extracting the relevant files with TomeViewer?

Are you aware that a USB mouse will not be effective, after startup, before the USB extensions have been loaded (into memory) with the OS? That means that none of the shortcut keys for disablement of extensions, rebuilding of the Desktop, bypassing the current startup volume, and so on, will be available to you during startup. This has considerable bearing on your avowed purpose of troubleshooting in a system with a USB mouse attached.

Are the Intel Mac and the 7500 the only Macs at your disposal? I take it that you cannot use a floppy disk to transfer just the USB support files? Is download of the USB files to the Intel Mac and transfer by ethernet to the 7500 for expansion and decoding not an option for you?

If a custom CD remains your choice, you will have the greatest chance of making one successfully, even if some parts of the exercise may seem to be overkill, if you:

1) use HFS rather than HFS+ file format for the CD, thereby removing the 'wrapper' as a level of complexity;

2) burn as data, with 'make CD bootable' chosen;

3) burn at lowest available speed onto a CD-R blank;

4) check that the normally invisible Desktop files are included with other data files;

5) do this from a non-Intel Mac that is Classic Mode-aware, or better, from a Mac that supports (can boot directly into) OS 9 and below.

In the light of this prescription, the least-fuss method and best long-term investment for achieving your purpose may well be purchase of a working ADB mouse, even if that is slower. ADB II mouses are as cheap as chips nowadays. In the short term, however, direct installation of the USB support software will at least get a useful mouse presence for you once the 7500 has reached a functional Desktop.

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[Anonymous Freak]

A USB mouse doesn't matter in regards to keyboard keys during startup.

 

[equill]

Correct as far as the examples I quoted are concerned. I had my own practice in mind, which is to hold down spacebar during startup so as to open the Extensions Manager window (and to make alterations in the startup set of CPs and extensions) before returning to the startup sequence. This procedure is useful to invoke or create a troubleshooting set, or to choose between Mac OS All and Mac OS Base sets, but it certainly needs a functional mouse.

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