[DM-MUG] Firmware upgrade question

[Bryan Baker]

If you never had OS9, that machine may not be able to boot OS9.
Your best bet may be to temporarily install the card in an older mac  
that can boot 9 (but that has PCI, so no x100 nuBus machines) to  
flash the card, then re-install it in your main mac. Painful but  
should work.

On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:22 PM, Travis L Ballstadt wrote:
> I'm running 10.3.9 on my G4, and I have a PCI card that allows for  
> more hard drives to be installed internally.  Problem is, to fully  
> use the card, I need to upgrade my firmware, and to do that, I need  
> to boot into OS 9.  I don't have OS 9, never have.
>
> What's my route to putting a bootable OS 9 folder on my Mac?  I  
> tried copying the System 9 Folder onto a CD from a computer at the  
> office, then copying that to my hard drive, but it didn't work.  I  
> was able to get it to work between two computers at the office when  
> I transferred the folder through the network, but I'm not able to  
> take my computer into the office and connect it to the network there.
>
> So what's your advice?  I really don't want to go spend $50 on a  
> copy of OS 9 when all I'm going to use it for is for this 5 minute  
> firmware upgrade.  Help?
>
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