Motorola StarMax 3000

DevilRocks · #1 May 29th, 2005, 06:43 PM

hey everyone, i my x86 winXP machines motherboard just failed, so my computer teacher gave me a motorola starmax 3000.

So far i put in a cdrw burner in it as a slave on the master cdrom. The burner is not detected. I am also running os 7.5.3 and would like to upgrade to os 9.1 and was told by low end mac that it was possible. The problem i am having with this was i have the mac os 9.1 dmg image on my hard drive of my other x86 windows computer. I need to burn the image to a cd but dont know how to do it, can anyone help me with that? Also i will need help setting up networking on it with a nic i recently put in. So there i s alot of thing that i need help with.

Please help me!

the first thing i would like to get help with would be burning the image, i am using nero6. Can anyone help me?

thanks

-Thomas Johnson

**Cheryl** · #2 May 30th, 2005, 07:26 AM

Thomas,

That image you have is probably the update and not the full install. You will need to obtain the full install OS 9 CD.

Make sure you have the max of RAM installed 160 mb before you install OS 9.

And to get that CD burner working you will need Roxio's Toast version 5.x for OS 9.

DevilRocks · #3 May 30th, 2005, 01:59 PM

Thank you for replying,

but i got the image and it was the full version of mac os 9.1 So i am pretty sure it's real. Also it takes up somewhere between 500 and 600MB. I dont know if i have 160MB of ram, i know they are sims i will check in on that so thx there

But do you know how i could convert it to iso?

nixgeek · #4 May 30th, 2005, 07:55 PM

DevilRocks, check this out...

http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/

Gotta love google...

PS: To see how much RAM you have, go to the Apple menu on the top left, and Select "About this Macintosh". There you will see how much physical RAM you have.

If you want to get more memory, make sure you get 3.3 volt 168-pin EDO RAM. On those systems, there are three slots: two will hold a 64 MB module and the other will only hold a 32 MB module. It will say on the motherboard whether it is for single bank (the 32 MB one) or double bank (32 or 64 MB). It looks as though it will hold PC-xx memory but it doesn't take this memory. It is specifically 3.3 volt 168-pin EDO DIMM modules.

DevilRocks · #5 May 30th, 2005, 10:07 PM

hmm...well thx for the link. But i have already tried dmg2iso (didnt work) and i know i did it right cuz it worked with panther dmgs. and the other program is in pearl script and i dont know how to execute it. About the ram i have the 3, 32mb sims, 96mb total (or something like that).

I would also like to know, how big of a hard drive could i put in it?

Thx for the help so far :-D

But i still need more help lol

DevilRocks · #6 June 1st, 2005, 01:32 AM

Ok, umm...sorry to double post but...i still need help lol.

Alright, i got the mac os cd's burned at a friends house who had osX, was a f****n pain in the ass to do it, but i did it. I try to install mac os 9.1 but it wont boot from the cd? Then i try and open the file while the os is running after it loaded up, and it says "cannot run file, see documentation for more details." I search finder and find documentation.html and it doesnt have internet tools setup. I dont know where to go from here. Can someone please help me?

Also, i was told toast 5x would be good for os9 all i found was toast 6x will it work too?

Please help me

thx

-Thomas Johnson

nixgeek · #7 June 1st, 2005, 09:36 AM

It sounds like that image you downloaded might have been bad. You might have to purchase a copy of Mac OS 9.1 or find it some other way. Check out Low End Mac (http://www.lowendmac.com) for prices on Mac OS 9.1 (9.2 will not install be default on this system, but you aren't missing much) or earlier versions like 8.6. These shouldn't be too expensive to get since they have been

Apple does provide System 7.5.3 for free legally if you don't mind sticking with that. You can then upgrade it to 7.5.5 which is still pretty snappy.

DevilRocks · #8 June 1st, 2005, 04:06 PM

Ok i tried booting from the cd again, this time i was holding down the "c" key, and it didnt work. I am using an atx keyboard and ps2 mouse. It has the ports and they work fine, do you think that could be the reason it's not working. But then again, it still wont work while the os is running. i tried toast and it cant read the cd it has the option for initialize and it cant initialize cuz all it would do is try to format the cd which would do no good. Also the burner in the mac, i can hear it spin up while its booting but the os wont detect it

does anyone know what to do next?