Bootable CD Drives?

[Sunoo]

Like I said, they actually burn at 8x, which is the lowest speed my burned supports. I've done it with ImgBurn on Windows 10, Toast 7 on Mac OS X and the Disk Utilities on Mac OS X, no changes for any of them.

The only other Mac I have on hand is an SE/30, but that doesn't support booting from CD.

 

[MrGasS27]

Sorry, I confused the speed in the previous message.

I think that the last way is pasting an image or something on the IDE HDD...

I'm reading this thread, bigmessowires's saying that he mounted an HFS disk for read and write it with emulators like SheepShaver, maybe you can install the OS from the emulator to the HDD with an IDE to USB adapter (I think I will try these indications with my SCSI2SD's SD card to see if it really works)



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[techknight]

Download the legacy recovery CD and burn that, use ImgBurn to burn it, and I know for a fact its good. I use it. 

Your OS 8.5 may not be bootable. 

 

[techknight]

Oh, there is a recovery CD that is geared towards powerpc as well, and it too, is bootable as I have used it too. 

 

[Sunoo]

It just booted a burned copy of the Performa 6200CD Recovery CD that I found. Any ideas how I get a bootable copy of Mac OS 8.1 or above (so I can use HFS+)?

 

[techknight]

Macintosh garden. I know they have bootable disks there. Might be able to get OS 8.6 or OS 9. Both of which will craw on your 6200 but at least its available. 

With that hobbled machine you might be better off sticking with Mac OS 8.1 

That is on the legacy CD along with the 8.1 update. 

 

[Sunoo]

I've tried the 8.1, 8.5, and 8.6 images on Macintosh Garden, my machine has been unwilling to boot any of them.

 

[techknight]

Then they are likely bad copies. could be disk images burned as ISOs instead of a true ISO. 

 

[Sunoo]

I'm not sure what you mean by that. I burned them the same way as I burned the Performa recovery disc.

 

[techknight]

No, i meant when they were ripped. Someone could have simply created a disk image from the CD, which means it isnt bootable. 

Or they ripped it with newer versions of disk copy which wont retain the bootable flag. At least it didnt for me back when I was screwing around with CDs. 

Edit: I have bootable ISOs sitting around here somewhere, gotta look for them. 

But if I was in your case I would just simply make a boot floppy with the CD driver and just do it that way. Thats how I got around using 3rd party drives back in the day. 

 

[Sunoo]

Ah, I see now. So that comes back around to: where do I get a bootable copy of this OS? Or do I have to scrounge eBay until one comes up for a reasonable price?

 

[techknight]

I would just make a boot floppy with the CD drive extension like how I did back in the day for non-bootable media or 3rd party drives. Itll mount the CD and you can just do an install from there. 

Basically a minimal Disk Tools disk with just Finder/System/Apple CD Extension. 

 

[Sunoo]

I tried that, but it didn't seem to load the extension. I can try again I guess.

 

[techknight]

You need a disk tools disk with a high enough version that does. I think System 7.5NAD will if I recall. You will have to dump all the other extensions to put that one in place. For newer PPC machines I had to use the 8.1 Disk tools disk. 

 

[Sunoo]

I need at least 8.1 for HFS+, I tried 8.1 and 8.5 disk tools with the cd extension added last week, no luck.

 

[techknight]

Try CD Sunrise. 

 

[Sunoo]

I just tracked that down and tried adding it to the extensions folder on Disk Tools from 8.5, and no change. It really seems like disk tools just isn't loading extensions for some reason?

 

[techknight]

drop the extension in the root of the system, together with Finder and System. Like the way system 6 is. 

 

[Sunoo]

I did that and it told me it should go into the extensions folder. I tried accepting that and it didn't load it. I tried again, forcing it to the System folder, and that also didn't seem to load it.

 

[techknight]

Hmm. .I have never had an issue in the past so something is definitely going on there... 

Try putting in the Stock CD instead of the burned ones. See if it mounts? Reason I ask is because a TRUE HFS CD doesnt need the ISO9660 extension.