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Re: [slightly OT] Boot problems with OS 9.0.4

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, strobe anarkhos wrote:

> Take a MacOS 9 system folder, like from the CD, drag it into your disk,
> rename the original, and try to select the new one with System Disk.
> (hey, wish Mac OS X could do this ;-)
>
> If this works your old system is screwed. Update the new system to 9.0.4
> or 9.1 and put your old extensions/cdevs/prefs/etc. into it then delete
> the old system.
>
> If this doesn't work your partition map may be screwed or something even
> worse.
>
> Pray it does work.

:-) Well, I've had a few things work that I didn't think would. I
haven't gotten the system working right, but at least I managed to install
9.0.4 on the firewire drive using my G4 desktop machine. So now, I'm able
to at least run 9.0.4 in stand-alone mode, albeit a bit tethered. Maybe I
can get the thing working from there by some other tricks....

Then, the most surprising thing happened.... I plugged in the firewire
hard drive into my OS X machine and the bloody thing mounted! I didn't
think OS X had firewire support.... :-)


David

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