OS 8.6 and Windows Fat16?

Yes, and I believe they are the ones needed for some types of CD access as well.

Foreign File Access -- this one is key to all the others
ISO 9660 Access
High Sierra File Access
Photo CD Access

If you have removed the Apple CD driver to use a third-party CD Drive, I am not certain which Extensions in what combinations are to be used, so it may take some experimentation.

You may also need the File Exchange control panel. This component and those mentioned by Grant are part of the OS.

(33717)

I can't say one way or the other about the installer working from a flash drive. However, if it does want to be on its own "drive" you might be able to save it into a disk image and then open the image on the target computer which may then be perceived as a CD. The only thing is, the .dmg image style generated by OSX cannot be opened in OS8 (well, there was a very late release of the pre-OSX image program (forget the name) that I believe would open those files).

You know, I seem to recall loading all kinds of pre-OSX OSes on computers and almost never having a retail CD version and the installer would work. (Hey, I was at a place with a huge site license and we never got official CDs for any OS version. It's been a while and after logging in we would download image files I think).

Yeah,
Disk Copy 6.4. It could open unencrypted, uncompressed OSX Disk Copy disk images. There may be a few links in the discussions that make it available.

Definitely ran on OS9, not sure about OS8 tho'. The OS X Disk Utility (or Disk Copy in OSX 10.2 and before) replaced the OS9 Disk Copy, Disc Burner, Disk First Aid and maybe even Drive Setup.

I never managed to boot OS8 or OS9 from a USB memory stick, or a PCMCIA card on my old PowerBooks. The USB stick (and the CF card) had to be re-formatted to HFS+ to allow me to install OS8.6 and 9.2 from the installer discs. It installed successfully, but I could never get the PBG3 (and tried gain with a PBG4 later) to actually boot from these devices. There's no key combination, so I had to use the Startup Disk CP.

All my (unseuccessful) testing was explained later after reading that only recent Macs could boot from USB (external drives). Can't remember exact details, might be Intel only, or G5 and later only.


cosmic,

getting a working CD drive has to be a priority if you have any important data on the Mac. Only you can define important, could be work, backups, old apps, even old games, or saved games.

Flash sticks can be reformatted at will, but the information on it at that moment will be lost.

It may be simpler to format it to Mac OS or Mac OS Extended format, move the Mac OS files you need, then reformat later for your FAT-16 uses.

As always, Grant has the easiest solution.