On Feb 17, 2010, at 9:48 PM, James D. Pritchett wrote:
No good i downloaded the disk image but can not make a disk. it errors out the image it say is too big, won't fit and i tried copying the files but wallstreet kicks it out on start up and asks for the password.
If it's asking for a password BEFORE booting the OS, this is a firmware password, not an OS password. To get rid of a firmware password you'd need to remove the battery and the PRAM battery.
As for the image not fitting, this is a problem with the floppy itself. When a floppy has bad blocks, they're "mapped out" on formatting and the available size is smaller than the maximum size. There are also two sizes of floppy (actually more, but for our purposes just two), the 800k and the 1.44MB, so you need to be certain you've got a 1.44MB floppy, and then use Disk Copy to make the floppy from the .img file.
On Feb 17, 2010, at 9:51 PM, John Musbach wrote:
I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but you can legally download a bootable disk image of Mac OS 9 for free here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120243.
This isn't a bootable disc image file, it's an OS X installer package. Very different things. This installs OS 9 from within a booted OS X environment. It doesn't create a bootable OS 9 installer CD, and AFAIK there are no OS 9 "live" CDs (a CD that boots into a working OS 9 System, as opposed to the installer CD which is limited to certain utilities and installing OS 9).
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