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June 1st, 2005, 07:16 PM
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| When you burned that CD with OS 9 on it, did you also put a System folder on it? In order for a CD to be bootable, you need a system folder on it so the computer can use it to start up. So you would have the installer on the CD along with a working system folder. You will need to copy one off a computer that has OS 9 on it minus all the third party files. You can not run the OS 9 installer while the hard drive is used as the start up. You are in a catch 22. Here is the link for Toast 5. http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast5/index.jhtml You are probably better off investing in an OS 9 CD full install as NixGeek said.
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June 2nd, 2005, 01:13 AM
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| Well i dont know if it has the system files on it, its an iso. Is there a way i can put in the mac and find the folder? tell me how to do it. Also, do you have a toast iso, or dmg, of 5x there is no way i am gonna spend money on this computer lol. Instant message me or email me about getting me that free somehow.  And a question i asked before that i would like you to answer is, how big of a hard drive could i put in it? Also, Cheryl, it would be nice if you could instant message me ya know. Please help me lol |
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#11
June 2nd, 2005, 12:00 PM
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| As for the hard drive space, any ATA-IDE hard drive should do. Here's an idea of what you can put on there. http://mail.maclaunch.com/Lists/star...sage/4816.html Consider that the controller isn't new and not going to perfrm fast, but that can be fixed by installing a PCI IDE controller that is supported under Mac OS Classic. That will allow you to increase the HD speed as well as support for larger HDs without partitioning.
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#12
June 3rd, 2005, 11:50 PM
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| Yea, i looked at those, i am pretty suprized on how much you can upgrade it lol. But i am just pretty much lookin to upgrade cheap ya know. Do you think i could just buy a cheap used/refurbished 10GB or 15GB and put it in and install os 9.1 on it? Also, is there a way i could do firewire or usb, i have pci slots, but i dont know if it would have the driver. I have the some firewire cards, Ethernet cards, and modems. they all came out of x86 machines, do you think i have any chance of getting them to work .I still have the issue of getting os 9installed, sorry i havent been on more, i have been REALLY busy lol. but i still need all your support lol |
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June 10th, 2005, 03:11 PM
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| I recommend that you get OS 8.6. It uses far less RAM then 9.X, and that machine does not hold much RAM. It should run fairly well, but there is no CD driver in the Apple CD for non-Apple CD drives, or to format drives. That was on the original CD for the StarMax. They provided CD-ROM Toolkit and Hard Drive Toolkit by FWB. The serial numbers are in a file on the CD. You need the original CD. Your best source would be either a Mac user group, or another used StarMax. |
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June 17th, 2005, 05:08 PM
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| first of all, i have a starmac 5500, and have been through some of these same problems. as afr as the os 9 cd, i always use a real apple cd and never have had a problem, so i'm not much help on the disk image problems. and 8.6 does run snappy, but i never noticed much difference when i went to 9.1. as far as keyboard, use a apple abd board and not a ps2. i could never get a ps2 to work right, the os seemed to ignore some keystrokes. but any mouse i tryed seemed to work. mine has the same ram as yours, and it will do, but memory hungrey apps, like photoshop, will give you fitts. even maxing out the ram will not help there, just run one major app at a time. as far as pci cards, i put a usb card in and the os 9 usb drivers used it just fine. as for the nic, it saw it sometimes. the other cards most likely be simialir, will work, or hit and mis. now for the cd drive, the ide channels on this are singal only. they do not support master/slave, which is why your cdrw is not showing up. and using os 9, any cd drive showed up. as far as harddrive, this mobo may also have the 8gig limit that the apple macs did. i always used the onboard scsi for the harddrive, so i'm not sure. i help some of this helps. they were a nice well made computer in their time, but a little underpowered for today.
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