What a mess I've created:
I was preparing my 8500 to give away to a family member.
It has two internal HD: original 2 GB plus 40 GB.
In the process I erased both drives and installed OS 9 to the original 2 GB.
Then tried to update PANTHER ( on second harddrive ) to TIGER but the EXPOSTFacto stopped at the point it realized that it was dealing with a external FW drive. Also tried Sonnet's version but it did the same thing.
So I tried to re-install PANTHER but the CD installer would not mount. There was momentary green lite flash on the optical drive but that's was all.
I then replaced that CD optical drive and here again the CD would not mount.
My thought is that there is some corruption in the OS 9.
Because the OS 9 CD installer will not mount can I use SuperDuper from a firewired harddrive?
Or, another ideas how I can get myself out of this mess.