[G4] Could use some help.

Wilkin, Wayne (Mass) Wayne.Wilkin at Staples.com
Wed Sep 24 10:22:46 PDT 2003


You should be booted into 9 when doing this. Haven't been following the
thread. But toast has a preference that you need to check off to make it a
bootable disk. 

> ----------
> From: 	James Asherman
> Reply To: 	Power Macintosh G4 List
> Sent: 	Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:03 PM
> To: 	Power Macintosh G4 List
> Subject: 	Re: [G4] Could use some help.
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 11:50  AM, lavode at comcast.net 
> wrote:
> 
> >> I have tried to make a bootable OS 9 repair disk so that I can run my 
> >> 9
> >> utilities
> >> (Norton Utilities, TechTool, Disk Warrior) but the disks I made won't 
> >> boot. I
> >> have
> >> tried a few different approaches using Toast, and it is driving me 
> >> crazy, now.
> >>
> >> ANY suggestions? Or... a website with definitive directions. There 
> >> seem to be
> >> many
> >> different ways to make a bootable disk. Which one works?
> >
> > CC- What version of Toast are you using?  I have made bootable disks 
> > using
> > Toast 4, but haven't tried in Toast 5.  I don't have Toast 6, so can't
> > comment.  Let me know what you're using and I will try to give you a 
> > step-by-
> > step.  Contact me either directly or on the list.
> >
> > -Lavode
> >
> >
> 
> I too have tried to make such a boot disk but with OSX. Once I cut it 
> down enough to fit (and hopefully still boot). It says just drag the 
> system folder . which I do. Then I remove a bunch of crap and do the 
> library then remove crap.
> It stsarts to burn in toast  but then tells me it can't do something 
> with"Trampoline". What the heck is Trampoline  anyway?
> Jim
> 
> 
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