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Installing MacOs 9.1 without CD
Name: Thomas Date: January 4, 2002 at 02:40:36 Pacific
Comment:
Hi there, I've downloaded the German MacOS Update 9.1 from the US-Apple Web-Site in 15 partitions. As I started the installation there was this ugly message that I need to startup from an original Apple-CD. Has anyone an advice how I can update without this CD. Thanks. Thomas
Name: Me Date: January 4, 2002 at 07:36:09 Pacific
Reply:
Im no expert but it probably because the system is running when u try and update.Copy your system folder to a zip drive if you have one or burn it to a CD.Boot your system off the zip (or what ever) and update it.
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Response Number 2
Name: the pickle Date: January 4, 2002 at 11:30:07 Pacific
Reply:
IIRC, most of the foreign-language versions of the Mac OS, as well as the Language Kits for the English version, would not install unless you were booting from the CD. So you need to have the CD in order to upgrade. You can get it from Apple's Mac OS Up-to-Date program for about US$20, but I'm not sure how that works in Germany.
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Response Number 3
Name: Thomas Date: January 4, 2002 at 23:52:13 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for advice. If the installation works only with the original Mac CD, why do Apple offer online downloads.
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