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Hi David That’s odd. The only change I’ve made to the original iso, which is a duplicate of an original disc, is the addition of a new folder where I included the required files. I am investigating...
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I left a long reply with quite a few notes. but it looks like it’s gone. Are you sure that the disc was recorded in HFS? I made no changes to the iso other than adding a new folder with the utilities...
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Hey Alex, I was thinking that the HFS issue could be the problem, though I assumed that the PC software that I have called MacDrive 10 which is designed to write Mac compatible discs on a PC would...
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If you have the original disc, 7.5.5 as you mentioned. Try the following. Insert it in your PC and try to determine the format father drive and see if it is the same as the one you burned. The good...
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Addendum to the above. Not sure how ‘father’ got there. What I meant was to get information on the original disc so as to determine if it is in HFS, I believe it should be. If it is something else,...
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I probably wont be able to get back to this until early next week. I have to go out of town tomorrow for a meeting. I’ll be back in touch later with an update. David
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Hi David Absolutely. I get email notifications each time you post so I will reply as early as I can. —Alex
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Hi Alex, I am back working on this problem again. Do you think that the problem could be that I need to have CD ROM support files in the boot .iso so that they are available at startup?
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The mac will be satisfied to boot from an HFS volume. If you record the CD as an HFS volume and then hold the C key when booting from the CD, as you would do when booting from the original CD, it will...
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So in summary HFS for the CD and a valid System Folder should be the triggers that allow the computer to boot as expected. Please let me know if works as expected. In the event you can’t burn the CD I...
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I thought that because the .iso file that you gave me is an image, it would have the HFS file structure intact upon burning it to the CD. The image burning tools, like Imgburn do a bit by bit burn. I...
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Hi Alex, I found this discussion about what needs to be on the CD to make it bootable. I did find any CD ROM drivers in the .iso you sent. http://siber-sonic.com/mac/Vintage/CD_DVDdriver.html I also...
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Hi David You may have successfully burned the CD but it couldn’t have been burned as an HFS volume. Macintosh can boot discs that are in HFS only, so for booting a Mac, it must see an HFS volume...
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David, one more thing, I can test the CD before shipping if it comes to that. I do have an old Macintosh Color Classic with a CD reader so although it may at some point warn me that the operating...
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I read the article’s introduction but it’s not related to our issue; the article is tackling the issue of software (drivers) to deliver compatibility between Mac OS and 3rd party optical drives. —Alex
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OK, just grasping at straws. I do have a program (MacDrive 10) that writes HFS volumes. I loaded your .iso and used it to burn the HFS volume but it will not boot.
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I took a look at the MacDrive Manufacturer’s website and they claim “Burn Mac CDs and DVDs” http://www.mediafour.com/software/macdrive/standard-vs-pro/ The software, as they claim can burn Mac CDs,...
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Hey Alex, I replied to your email address but did not get a response from you so maybe my emails got caught in your spam folder.
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