Tim, I have sympathy as I have just been through the same with my S900, the problem is the piece of S*** CDROM Drive.
It drove me to standing in front of my machine threatening it with 'learning to fly' so I understand the frustration. I booted from CD (OS 9.1) that came in my original OSX box, seems quite forgiving and works with nearly every machine I have ever tried it with. Partitioned the disk into two partitions (9.1Gb Drive) 3 for Mac OS and the rest as a partition HFS+ formatted for the Linux installer to work with later. Either fileshare the patched CDROM driver across your network (if you have one) and install it, difficult if it is a PC you are sharing from, I would suggest you ask whoever it is that sent you the driver (I dont have it unfortunately) to stuff zip or hqx (binhex) it first then copy it across, OS 9 has Stuffit Expander with it that will handle nearly every sort of compression. I cheated and had an old Apple External SCSI CDROM drive (CD600) and hung that off the back of the mac and installed YDL from that. Once you have the patched driver then MacOS should smount the YDL CD and life returns to normal (This was the case with this machine when I first got it and the driver was on it, (stupid boy forgot to copy it off when I chose to wipe the machine) I could install (and did) YDL sucessfully. Good luck there were several times in this process (taken me nearly a week of getting frustrated with the B***** machine) that I have found that I cannot get the box to restart from the CD, bottles of wine I have found assist at these times. Good Luck Julian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Huntley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SuperMacs List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 3:26 PM Subject: [SM] Frustrated and Confused... > First off, let me say thank you to the people that have offered me help > through this list. > > Now, here is a summary of my problem: > > I have a C500, which I have thrown a 4gb Maxtor drive and 128mb of RAM > (144mb total.) I plan to run Yellow Dog Linux on the machine. I have > partitioned the drive, and installed Mac OS 9 in the Mac OS partition. > However, I have found that once I boot into OS 9, it doesn't recognize the > CD-ROM. > > I was given these solutions from members of this list: > > 1. Boot with the OS 9 CD in the drive, and then swap to the CD I need. This > works. > 2. Install a different CD-ROM driver. This has not worked yet, I tried to > copy it from my PC (which is the only machine I have w/ e-mail, and the > driver was e-mailed to me) and, as you probably all know, the C500 wouldn't > recognize it as anything but a PC file. > > My plan is to use #1 above as I don't plan on using Mac OS much on the > machine, and #1 seems to work. However, I ran into a big snag last night. > I partitioned the drive incorrectly, so I was going to reboot off of the OS > 9 CD, and re-initialize the drive using the correct partitions. The darned > machine will *NOT* boot from the CD! I have used the Startup Disk control > panel to change the startup disk to the CD. It booted from the hard disk. > I have held down the "C" key from the moment I hit the power button. It > still booted from the hard disk, and I felt silly sitting there staring at > the desktop holding down the "C" key. > > So what's going on? What can I do to get this thing to boot from the CD > again? > > Thanks again, > Tim. > > > > -- > SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > > > -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
