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2010, April 13 - 2:45am

sneakyboson

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Macos 8.6 disk image problem

Hey,

Not long ago I obtained a copy of MacOS 8.6 in .iso format for use in sheepshaver, but it turned out to be damaged so I made a .dmg copy in disk utility, copied the contents of the original .iso minus a user-added 'xtras' folder that sheepshaver didn't seem to accept (I guess because not included in retail CD?). Anyway, i formatted it into Mac OS standard (HFS), verified/repaired it (was OK), and converted it back into .iso format and locked it, but when I run it in sheepshaver I just get the blinking question mark at startup. Any ideas with what i'm doing wrong?

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2010, October 30 - 11:17pm

gajbooks

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Only copying the files will not copy all of the disk (like the boot sector). You will have to download another one. First, I would try converting to read-write .dmg using the convert command on disk utility and then delete the Xtras folder and then convert back to .iso format using DMG isolation (avalable from pure-mac). If that won't work then just download another from this site.

2010, November 19 - 2:50pm

24bit

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Hi,
you might as well check SheepMyShaver123's files, linked in the forum.
I think the "Apple System Software Recovery 2" files should do the trick.

2010, November 21 - 6:37am

MadMac

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Can you burn ¨.img¨ s?
if you can, try this one:

http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/system-86-power-macintosh-g4-software-in...

2010, November 21 - 6:38am

MadMac

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that one should work...