Steve,

may be you don't know this and so it will be useful for you (?):

I used a nice trick to install MacOS 8.1 onto a IIci with Daystar PPC card.
Essentially, I copied the IIci's System Folder to a Syquest attached then the
Syquest to G3 Powermac (any real PM would have been fine) booted then the G3
from the OS CD and choosed to update the Syquest System Folder (using the
option "OS for all systems" - sorry, I'm guessing here from the german
version). Then, I transferred all back to the IIci hd. Worked like a charm. I
think essentially, in this way I avoided the Gestalt Id the MacOS installer
asks for and since the IIci is always a IIci even with a PPC card, it would
have installed OS 8.1 to it . . .

Best regards, Ulrich


Space Case wrote:
> 
> On Oct 21,  9:45am, nigel@ind.tansu.com.au wrote:
> >...
> >> I'm looking
> >> for the utility/control panel/whatever called "Wish I Were" that allows
> >> a system to claim to be some other kind of machine.
> >
> >       Note that, at least as far as NetBSD is concerned,
> >the latest Booter (1.11.4a1) should now do this.
> 
> I'm looking to fake my C610 w/PPC card into installing OS8.5 onto a Jaz
> disk, for educational purposes. ;-)
> 
> ~Steve
> 
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