Hi.
I have an Apple PowerBook 2400c and a Mac OS X Server 1.2 disc. I've heard that it will run on that PowerBook but that it is not officially supported and that Blue Box won't run at all.
But how do I install it. Since it has no internal CD or floppy drive, I have an old external CD reader from Apple connected on the SCSI port. I boot it from the CD and Mac OS 9 shows up. I format the internal disk and start the installation. Everything runs smoothly until it is time to restart in to the installer partion on the CD. Open Firmware does nothing but printing out "CAN'T OPEN" messages all over the first lines of the screen.
Before restarting (after running the installer) you may have to point your system to the Rhapsody UFS partition on the CD using the System Disk Utility in the Utilities folder. On some systems the firmware doesn't quite get the message from the installer.
The only other reason I know of for that type of error is when people either download or copy Server 1.x CDs, in which case they often only get the HFS partition but not the UFS partition. All the important stuff is on the UFS partition which is not readable by most other operating systems, so is often not copied.
whenever i have tried d/l'ing rhapsody and then burning it always burns but not right. never creates a desktop folder on the cd
This CD is working. It has the UFS partition and a working Desktop Folder. I've tried it on another unsupported Mac (iMac DV 400) and managed to install it. Booting however resulted in a kernel panic.