How To Install D11E4

How to Install Mac OS 8 (D11E4): Last revision 6/13/96 Please read these instructions carefully before installing Mac OS 8. Warning: This is a Pre-Release operating system. BACK UP all information on all drives connected to a machine on which you plan to run Mac OS 8. You may experience disk corruption and data loss on this release. You currently need two machines to boot Mac OS 8: one is a machine from the "Hardware Supported" list below, the other is a machine capable of running the Power Macintosh Debugger. The two machines must be connected via a serial cable. See "Debugger Instructions" below. Note: Before installation, place a text file called "No Mac OS 8 Mount" on any drives that you don't want to have mounted while in Mac OS 8. Late-Breaking News: ------------------DO NOT click the "Setup" button when creating a destkop printer. Here are the steps to create a desktop printer in D11E4: 0) Before installing, remove any existing desktop printers 1) Click on the LaserWriter GX icon ==>You'll see a few benign asserts 2) Click on the printer of your choice 3) Click the "Create" button 4) When the "Setup" dialog comes up, hit CANCEL (this is the most important step). 5) You'll have to reboot for a desktop printer to show up correctly 6) Go print! See the Printing release notes for more information. Installation Instructions: -------------------------1) Initialize a 250MB or larger drive using Drive Setup (see "Drive Setup Instructions" below), or another utility. We'll call this freshly initialized drive the "Mac OS 8 volume" 2) Install (do not copy) a fresh System 7.5.x onto the Mac OS 8 volume 3) Run the Mac OS 8 Installer script "Install Mac OS"; install onto the Mac OS 8 volume 4) Set your startup disk to be the Mac OS 8 volume 5) Put down the Caps Lock key 6) Restart ==> You should boot into Mac OS 8 Drive Setup Instructions: ------------------------You should be able to install Mac OS 8 on a drive initialized by any software. We recommend using Drive Setup 2.0d5c2 which is incluced with the D11E4 build. 1) In the Drive Setup window, select your Mac OS 8 volume. 2) Click Initialize. You get the Initialize dialog: "Initializing will destoy all data...". 3) Click Custom Setup...in the Initialize dialog. 4) Select a Partitioning Scheme of 1 Macintosh HFS. 5) Click OK to go back to the Initialize dialog. In the lower status field, it should say: "New Partitioning: 1 Macintosh HFS Initialization Options: none" 6) Click Initialize. Debugger Instructions: ---------------------To run Mac OS 8, you will need a debugging machine. This can be any Macintosh capable of running the Power Mac debugger connected to the Mac OS 8 machine via a serial cable. It does not have to be a PowerPC machine, any Macintosh with 7MB free RAM (Virtual Memory is OK) is sufficient. There is currently no reliable way to run Mac OS 8 without the debugger at this time; however, you should be able to boot to Finder in most cases without a debugging machine connected. Th…