OK I am a total Mac newbie but trying to learn, I have recently acquired an old Starmax 5000 275 mhz Mac Clone, it had OS 7 installed from the factory and I have that disk along with the OS 9 disk, right now it has OS 9 installed but the problem is I can't mount a CD. So after a little research I found the following info on the Motorola site:
"If you installed Mac OS 8.0 already and did not have CD-ROM Toolkit installed on your hard drive, you must now install CD-ROM Toolkit from your StarMax CD-ROM. If you reformatted your hard drive and then installed Mac OS 8.0 on it, you must also install CD-ROM Toolkit from your StarMax CD-ROM.
Boot from the StarMax CD-ROM that came with your StarMax computer and install CD-ROM Toolkit on your Mac OS 8.0 hard drive. To boot the CD-ROM, press and hold the C key as the computer is starting or restarting. The CD-ROM Toolkit installer is inside the Bundled Software folder, which is inside the Install Software folder of the StarMax CD-ROM.
When you see the CD-ROM Toolkit installer warning "An item has been found which may conflict with CD-ROM Toolkit: Apple CD-ROM", press the Disable button. You may see a message after this warning that a correct version of CD-ROM Toolkit is not being found. Ignore this and press the Cancel button. The next error message you see warns you that the Preferences file could not be created. Ignore this and press the OK button. The CD-ROM Toolkit application window now appears. First check the On box and then the Fast box. Quit the program and restart your computer.
Immediately after the computer restarts, press the eject button of your CD-ROM drive to remove the StarMax CD-ROM from the CD-ROM Toolkit (see the warning below). After the computer has restarted, CD-ROM Toolkit will be your active CD-ROM extension."
My problem is that after booting form the Starmax CD I see the CD Rom Toolkit installer and try and run it but I get the error: "The selected disk named "untitled" is locked. Please select another disk. Anyone have any suggestions.
"If you installed Mac OS 8.0 already and did not have CD-ROM Toolkit installed on your hard drive, you must now install CD-ROM Toolkit from your StarMax CD-ROM. If you reformatted your hard drive and then installed Mac OS 8.0 on it, you must also install CD-ROM Toolkit from your StarMax CD-ROM.
Boot from the StarMax CD-ROM that came with your StarMax computer and install CD-ROM Toolkit on your Mac OS 8.0 hard drive. To boot the CD-ROM, press and hold the C key as the computer is starting or restarting. The CD-ROM Toolkit installer is inside the Bundled Software folder, which is inside the Install Software folder of the StarMax CD-ROM.
When you see the CD-ROM Toolkit installer warning "An item has been found which may conflict with CD-ROM Toolkit: Apple CD-ROM", press the Disable button. You may see a message after this warning that a correct version of CD-ROM Toolkit is not being found. Ignore this and press the Cancel button. The next error message you see warns you that the Preferences file could not be created. Ignore this and press the OK button. The CD-ROM Toolkit application window now appears. First check the On box and then the Fast box. Quit the program and restart your computer.
Immediately after the computer restarts, press the eject button of your CD-ROM drive to remove the StarMax CD-ROM from the CD-ROM Toolkit (see the warning below). After the computer has restarted, CD-ROM Toolkit will be your active CD-ROM extension."
My problem is that after booting form the Starmax CD I see the CD Rom Toolkit installer and try and run it but I get the error: "The selected disk named "untitled" is locked. Please select another disk. Anyone have any suggestions.