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2010, October 28 - 2:27pm

Vitoarc

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Mac OS 8.7 Image Question

I'm pretty sure some of you have already seen this, because the link to this site has been posted here on MacGarden:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b88e2ce4ed1308ff91b20cc0d07ba4d2499b7...

As you can see, there is an OS 8.7 image on that site. After downloading, here's what I've found:

- It can't mounted with DiskImageMounter in OSX because I get a "Codec Overrun" message.
- It can be mounted in Toast 5.2, but the image can't be burned due to the Codec Overrun.
- It can be mounted using DiskUtility
- The image verifies successfully using DiskUtility
- Aside from the codec overrun issue, this appears to be a clean copy of the original CD (Desktop_DB and DF are original dates).

Does anyone have any suggestions what to do about this?

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2010, October 28 - 3:41pm

Temporary Joe

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Mac OS 8.7 either must be a fake or a beta, because Mac OS 8.7 was released as Mac OS 9.0.

2010, October 28 - 4:32pm

bertyboy

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Burn it and re-image with OSX Disk Utility, or Toast ?

2010, October 28 - 5:08pm

Vitoarc

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TemporaryJoe, it does look to be a beta now that you mention it. The file name is Mac_OS_8.7a6c2.

All the files are dated June, 1999. After a little research I've found that 8.6 was released in May, 1999. So this does look like a beta.

bertyboy, I'll see what happens.

2010, October 28 - 5:53pm

Balrog

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Yeah, it's definitely beta.

2010, October 28 - 7:22pm

Protocol 7

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I installed 8.7a6c2 in SheepShaver some time ago. I'm guessing I have the same image. But I just copied it to a blank hfv file, mounted the image (Disk Copy or Shrinkwrap, can't remember now) and installed from that. It's basically a beta of OS9 (in the same way early versions of OS8 were 7.7)

2010, October 28 - 7:37pm

Vitoarc

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Thanks Protocol 7, that is very helpful information. I'll give that a shot. I'm just curious about it more than anything else, thought it would be neat to test drive in SheepShaver.

2010, October 28 - 7:48pm

Protocol 7

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You can also test drive 8.2 the same way. That one has the themes that never made it into 8.5.