Making an Autorun CD for MacOS 8.x

[niklasni1]

I don't think there's such a thing as an auto-running CD for Macs.

I think I might be able to help you, though, but I was just about to head out for a pint..

[niklasni1]

The VNC servers all seem to need a system extension...

Don't you know anybody with an old mac that would let you borrow a keyboard? That would make everything so much easier...

[niklasni1]

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

Because they didn't exist when the Mac connectors were introduced?

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....

Macs don't care that there's no keyboard. It's probably complaining that the computer was improperly shut down last time and is informing you that just pulling the plug might cause data loss and damage to the hardware..

bloodline wrote:
Ok... before I rip the Floppy drive from my W-30 and pop on to an old PC mobo I have lying around here... once the floppy disk is in Mac... how do I get it out again :-?

Are you sure that your W-30 (great taste in keyboards, BTW) floppy drive is PC-compatible? To be honest I'd be surprised if it was.

The Mac will eject the floppy when the system shuts down... if it's shut down properly...

[niklasni1]

Hm.

Are you sure everything's connected to the motherboard?

[niklasni1]

And it doesn't even spit the floppy out when you start the computer? Just nothing at all?