Booting off a CD with a 9500

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I'm having problems booting off of a CD with my 9500. I wanted to install Darwin on it and mess around with that, but the computer refuses to boot off of any CD.

Once the computer boots, the CD is mounted, and I can browse the CD without any problems.

Are 9500s able to boot off the CDROM?

Anyone have a similar problem?
 
are you sure the cds are bootable? are they originals or burned cds?
If they are burned cds you have to brun them as a bootable disk.

or maby if the cd drive is not the original cd drive and it's not a bootable one....
 
Yes they are bootable CDs.

The one is a direct burn of the Darwin CD image, which on Apple's site, says that it's a bootable image.

Also, the same Darwin CD will boot up my G4 no problem.

The CD ROM is original from what I can tell. It says Apple CD ROM on it, or something similar.
 
Yeah, thanks ksv. I already tried XPostFacto, but it won't run for some reason on my 9500. I get some weird API error.

I've updated to the latest carbon lib, but that didn't change anything.

I originally did try to use XPostFacto, but when that didn't work, I tried just Darwin. On the Darwin site, it doesn't say that it won't run on any pre-G3 computers though, that's why I tried it.
 
OK, here's the error that I get when opening XPostFacto:

"The application 'XPostFacto' could not be opened because 'InterfaceLib--GetComponentResource' could not be found.
You may need to install a newer version of 'InterfaceLib--GetComponentResource'"

Weird eh?

I have CarbonLib 1.6 installed as well.:confused:
 
Holly crap I got it to work!

I installed Quicktime 6 on my 9500, and presto! It works!

I guess that XPostFacto uses an API call that's in a Quicktime library.

Darwin, here I come!
 
Originally posted by devonferns
Holly crap I got it to work!

I installed Quicktime 6 on my 9500, and presto! It works!

I guess that XPostFacto uses an API call that's in a Quicktime library.

Darwin, here I come!
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Cool :)
 
Well, I ended up installing OS X because Darwin gave a kernel panic every time it booted off the CD.

Now, I'm in the OS X setup after the install and the monitor that I have with this 9500 only goes to 640 by 480 res.

All my other monitors are VGA, and the video card in the 9500 doesn't have VGA output.:p

So, what I think I'll have to do is take the video card out of my G4 (Rage 128 Pro), install it in this 9500, setup OSX with it, and put in the old video card.:D
 
I'm pleased to say that I now have OS X.1 running on a 200 MHz 604e 9500 with 64 megs o ram!

This thing is actually running really fast. Way faster than what I thought it would be :D

Well, using the video card from my G4 didn't work because it's AGP and I thought it would fit in a PCI slot, but nope!

So, I took out the HD from the 9500, put it in my G4, tried to get it to boot from the 2 gig scsi drive, but it wouldn't boot.
I then re-installed OSX using the G4 onto the drive hoping that I could boot from it that way and configure OSX before putting the drive back into the 9500.

The install went fine, but I still couldn't boot off of it in the G4 for some reason.

I copied my /Users folder over, as well as my preferences hoping that the 9500 would bypass the configuration screen, and it did! Haha!

This is pretty cool!:D :D

Now to install Postfix and qpopper on this beast! :p
 
Originally posted by devonferns
I'm pleased to say that I now have OS X.1 running on a 200 MHz 604e 9500 with 64 megs o ram!

This thing is actually running really fast. Way faster than what I thought it would be :D

Well, using the video card from my G4 didn't work because it's AGP and I thought it would fit in a PCI slot, but nope!

So, I took out the HD from the 9500, put it in my G4, tried to get it to boot from the 2 gig scsi drive, but it wouldn't boot.
I then re-installed OSX using the G4 onto the drive hoping that I could boot from it that way and configure OSX before putting the drive back into the 9500.

The install went fine, but I still couldn't boot off of it in the G4 for some reason.

I copied my /Users folder over, as well as my preferences hoping that the 9500 would bypass the configuration screen, and it did! Haha!

This is pretty cool!:D :D

Now to install Postfix and qpopper on this beast! :p
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Great :)

Sorry for being so slow on respnding, because there is a much easier way...
You could just boot in single user mode and delete /System/Library/CoreServices/Setup\ Assistant.app :)
It's even written in the read me file for XPostFacto, too bad you didn't take your time to read it ;)
 
DOH!! LOL!

I guess I should have read that more carefully then hahaha.

I could have saved my self 4 hours of screwing around LOL.:p
 
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