[DM-MUG] Firmware upgrade question

[Bill Davis]

I think you have to have set the hard disk to when you formatted it to  
have boot drivers for OS 9.  Or something like that.  Check out the  
Disk Utility.

And of course, your Mac needs to be able to boot OS 9.  Recent Macs  
cannot.

  - Bill


On Jun 4, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Travis & Elisabeth 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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