Should Old World Macs boot right from a CD? Performa 6400

[glsillygili]

I have a Performa 6400 that I recently got. hard drive it came with is completely dead. I tried to put a burnt CD-R of 9.0.4 in and nothing, just a blinking question mark floppy disk. I was able to copy a image of the 1st disk from Mac OS 8 installer floppy and It actually shows the happy mac for 5 seconds and then ejects the disk. I'm not entirely sure if this is the disks fault or the floppy drive because the floppy drive makes some loud clicking noises. I was thinking of just installing 9.0.4 on my iMac G3 and then moving the hard drive into the performa, would this work or not? I'm not actually sure if the performa can read CD-Rs or not.

 

[Eriamjh1138@DAN]

My7300 could read CD-Rs but not CD-RW.

 

[Amethyst1]

My oldworld PowerBook G3 Wallstreet had no problems booting from CD-ROM and CD-R.

 

[Project Alice]

I have a Performa 6400 that I recently got. hard drive it came with is completely dead. I tried to put a burnt CD-R of 9.0.4 in and nothing, just a blinking question mark floppy disk. I was able to copy a image of the 1st disk from Mac OS 8 installer floppy and It actually shows the happy mac for 5 seconds and then ejects the disk. I'm not entirely sure if this is the disks fault or the floppy drive because the floppy drive makes some loud clicking noises. I was thinking of just installing 9.0.4 on my iMac G3 and then moving the hard drive into the performa, would this work or not? I'm not actually sure if the performa can read CD-Rs or not.

I used to have a 6400. I never had a problem booting it from CD-Rs. As stated though make sure it isn’t an RW, it won’t read those.

 

[TzunamiOSX]

If you burn the CD correctly (Classic OS need to burn with Toast, bootable) then you can boot from a CD.

I never get a bootable Classic OS without Toast under a classic system, because Toast need the Classic CD/DVD Driver to create a bootable CD (Classic OS has an universal CD driver on a bootable CD who needs to create on burning).

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Copy a Bootable Mac OS 9 Install Disc

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[Project Alice]

If you burn the CD correctly (Classic OS need to burn with Toast, bootable) then you can boot from a CD.

I never get a bootable Classic OS without Toast under a classic system, because Toast need the Classic CD/DVD Driver to create a bootable CD (Classic OS has an universal CD driver on a bootable CD who needs to create on burning).

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Copy a Bootable Mac OS 9 Install Disc

So with the recent turning of the calendar, I looked at my Tiger and OS 9 install discs and it occurred to me they're getting on in years an...

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I've always burned the ISO like normal. A lot of times on Windows with IMGburn. They've always booted. It should be the ISO image itself that is correct. The method of being written to a disc is irrelevant. I burned a Mac OS 8.6 CD a while ago and it boots. I just burned that in Finder on Mojave.

 

[alex_free]

I have a Performa 6400 that I recently got. hard drive it came with is completely dead. I tried to put a burnt CD-R of 9.0.4 in and nothing, just a blinking question mark floppy disk. I was able to copy a image of the 1st disk from Mac OS 8 installer floppy and It actually shows the happy mac for 5 seconds and then ejects the disk. I'm not entirely sure if this is the disks fault or the floppy drive because the floppy drive makes some loud clicking noises. I was thinking of just installing 9.0.4 on my iMac G3 and then moving the hard drive into the performa, would this work or not? I'm not actually sure if the performa can read CD-Rs or not.

Try

Burn - Home

burn-osx.sourceforge.io

Make sure you burn as a copy in the app.

 

[TzunamiOSX]

I've always burned the ISO like normal. A lot of times on Windows with IMGburn. They've always booted. It should be the ISO image itself that is correct. The method of being written to a disc is irrelevant. I burned a Mac OS 8.6 CD a while ago and it boots. I just burned that in Finder on Mojave.

Did you have a OS 9 CD to make a test burn? Perhaps this is a OS 9 CD only Problem.

 

[Project Alice]

Did you have a OS 9 CD to make a test burn? Perhaps this is a OS 9 CD only Problem.

I have a 9.0.4 CD I burned years ago when I still had my 6400, I still have that and it boots. I’ve got a couple 9.2 CDs that work fine, can’t remember how I burned those though. More than likely on my Mac Pro through Finder.