Making an Autorun CD for MacOS 8.x

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motorollin wrote:
I'm not even sure the VNC server is working. I downloaded a 68k VNC viewer and pointed it at localhost, and it just sat there. It actually appears to have hung the emulator.

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moto

I need to think...

[motorollin]

Going to try making an autostart disc anyway. Will let you know if it works.

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moto

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I think the PowerMac hasn't actually made it through the boot process :-(

[motorollin]

I thought you said you can ping it?

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moto

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motorollin wrote:
I thought you said you can ping it?

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moto

Yeah, but the CD-Rom drive doesn't spin up upon disk insertion...

[motorollin]

Hmm, so it's not booting or the drive is dead. Anyway, I used that MacImage software to supposedly create an image with an autostart app on it, but it won't burn. This is becoming very frustrating!

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moto

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motorollin wrote:
Hmm, so it's not booting or the drive is dead. Anyway, I used that MacImage software to supposedly create an image with an autostart app on it, but it won't burn. This is becoming very frustrating!

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moto

Buring boot the PowerMAc issues a few beeps that I'm not expecting... I suspect that the machine is halting on error... ie no keyboard....

[motorollin]

I wonder whether the machine will boot from an IDE HDD? If so you could install OS 8 on to a HDD from within an emulator and put the VNC server in the System/Startup Items folder, then boot the PowerMac from it. The VNC server should then start on boot.

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moto

[motorollin]

bloodline wrote:
Buring boot the PowerMAc issues a few beeps that I'm not expecting... I suspect that the machine is halting on error... ie no keyboard....

Bloody non-standard connectors... why not just use PS/2 and VGA ports? :roll:

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moto

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motorollin wrote:
I wonder whether the machine will boot from an IDE HDD? If so you could install OS 8 on to a HDD from within an emulator and put the VNC server in the System/Startup Items folder, then boot the PowerMac from it. The VNC server should then start on boot.

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moto

Right... Now I have to think how to do that :-)

Ok... I have a plan...

[motorollin]

Not a huge amount of help if the machine doesn't actually boot though. Well I'll have to give it a rest for the night - I've got revision to do tomorrow so need some sleep!

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moto

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motorollin wrote:
Not a huge amount of help if the machine doesn't actually boot though. Well I'll have to give it a rest for the night - I've got revision to do tomorrow so need some sleep!

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moto

I'm gonna hack a way for a bit... night! :-)

[motorollin]

Ok, I'll be sure to check up in the morning ;-) G'night!

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moto

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motorollin wrote:
Ok, I'll be sure to check up in the morning ;-) G'night!

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moto

After installing OS9 on to a 640Meg HD... I discovered that the PowerMAC does not have an IDE port...

Back to square one. I think I have reached  the end of the line, with this one.

does this system have a floppy drive? it's a long shot, but assuming the model in question is wired to be able to boot from a floppy at all, you could likely mod an old netbsd install disk to boot, load the scsi driver, and start a tftp server. the server should be small enough that if you lose the actual installer there'd be room for it. i don't remember ever having to hold down any keys to boot from a floppy on any mac capable of doing so.

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pkillo wrote:
does this system have a floppy drive? it's a long shot, but assuming the model in question is wired to be able to boot from a floppy at all, you could likely mod an old netbsd install disk to boot, load the scsi driver, and start a tftp server. the server should be small enough that if you lose the actual installer there'd be room for it. i don't remember ever having to hold down any keys to boot from a floppy on any mac capable of doing so.

It does have a floppy drive... but I have no idea how to go about creating a NetBSD disk... or even how write to a floppy disk any more... let alone in Mac format...