Mac OS 8.6 US English

Mac OS 8.6 United States English, generic (retail) version What is this? The file contains the RAR-ed, meaning packed with RAR, version of a Mac OS 8.6 US ISO image. The ISO is packed to lessen the time needed to downloading it. The packed file is 246MB smaller than the raw ISO. Before you can do anything with it you need to unpack it. If you don't have a suitable unpacker on your system, google for one. The ISO file was packed with WinRAR on an XP system and needs no password. When unpacked, the ISO is 701MB. What's it for? The Mac OS 8.6 ISO file is the "mold" for creating one or several instances of physical Mac OS 8.6 CDs. The physical CD can be used for booting up and installing the OS to many older Macintosh computer models. Use your favourite burning application or download one from the Internet. Please note that you CANNOT use a rewritable CD for this if you want it to boot on most older Macintoshes! You do not need to burn the ISO image on a Mac. The ISO standard describes a CD bit by bit and the burning system doesn't need to "understand" what's on the CD. Like a photocopier. Why? Whyyyyy? This is a silly question one often sees when older software is concerned. Just because there are Leopards and Vistas out there doesn't mean all else is worthless. Relax and have some fun. If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it. How do I use it? On a Macintosh you boot from CD by holding down the "C" key on the keyboard. The Mac OS CD of course must be in the drive. The Mac will also boot from the CD if there's no system on the hard disk. All Mac OS CDs are "live" CDs. A limited live system booted from the CD will allow you to format a hard drive and install a "real", complete OS from it onto the hard drive. The Mac OS 8.6 installation script is a bit odd, it requres you to first double click on the generic OS installation icon and then it asks you what hardware it is on. If you double click on the hardware specific script directly it will return an error. Why 8.6 and not something better? The Mac OS 8.6 will install on some Macintosh models than Mac OS 9.x wont. Also, some Macintoshes, like early CRT iMacs, will refuse to install Mac OS 9.x unless you upgrade their firmware. You can't do this from Mac OS 9.x but can instead use Mac OS 8.6. The necessary firmware files are all on the CD. Besides, I only have 8.6 in US English. My other Mac OSes are all in Swedish. Is it for my Macintosh model? Go to this Apple URL and see for yourself: What else? An OS isn't much fun by itself. The empty space of the original CD has been filled with an assortment of system enhancements and other software, like Internet browsers and word processors. Here's a list of that extra material: Acrobat Reader Fetch iCab Internet Explorer Outlook Express Netscape 7 OS9VNC Dave Adobe Type Reunion Adobe Type Manager FontBook TypeStyler A-Dock Kaleidoscope + Aquamakeover Dominoes (a game) Captura Goldberg Graphic Converter File Pirate File Buddy HexEdit ResEdit TattleTech TechTool Lite iTunes QuickTime RealPlayer SoundApp Windows Media Player (for Mac obviously) Adobe Photoshop 6 Dreamweaver Mariner Write + Calc StuffIt (packer) CarbonLib 1.6 Java 2.2.6 Joliet Volume Access SwitchRes Toast 5 EjectDisk Mt Everything PCalc The versions are the latest supported on OS 8.6 or just latest. Most will require that CarbonLib 1.6 is installed beforehand. Most are also packed in the .sit format, which means you'll need to install StuffIt. Install it in the same directory where the older version is installed and then erase the older version, else the system will use the older version by default. The same goes for Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Netscape. All the applications on this ISO will work nicely with Mac OS 9.x as well. Some of these files, like the Aquamakeover Jaguar theme, can't be found on the Internet anymore. If you don't know what a program is about, google for it. What's the use? Older systems can still be useful for productive work. This ISO contains pretty much everything a small home office could ask for. It is a tribute to all dumpster divers and hardware hamsters out there. How long will it be seeded? A very short time by me. This weekend only. Don't ask why. You guys will have to keep up the seed or reseed it at some other date. What now? This description will self-destruct in five seconds. No, seriously, download it or don't, that's all. Mac OS 9.2.1 US English is now uploaded.

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Montyskew (2007-11-03)

"How long will it be seeded?
A very short time by me."
Must have been extremely short!!

Popocapetl (2007-11-03)

I didn't quite understand the comment by Monteskew. This is my first torrent and I may have done something wrong. It has been available without interruption from the moment it was uploaded. That's what I believe in any case. I can see that someone is downloading it right now, but slowly. I'd be glad for any advice or tips to make this work better.

Popocapetl (2007-11-04)

Yes, that's odd. It says 0 seeders and 0 leechers here too, but someone is downloading it. If it doesn't work for you try contacting me at this address:
thickdick[at]bigfoot.com
And we'll try some other solution.
Everything on the ISO that isn't part of the normal Mac OS 8.6 CD has been placed in a folder named XTRAS, to avoid messing up the structure of the OS and the CD.

Popocapetl (2007-11-05)

You can find the Mac OS compatibility chart by seaching for "Mac OS 8.6 chart" in Google. If you're somewhere at Apple's messy web pages search for article number 25114.

rifhacker (2007-12-08)

thank you so much

zealotzuo (2008-01-19)

Thanks for this brilliant file... I originally thought I wouldn't find it anywhere online.

notoriousmdc (2008-01-28)

Thanks for posting, I'll gladly seed!

partyboy911 (2008-03-02)

Is it possible to download this problem and just take "Mariner Write + Calc" from it? I am looking for that program..

photonut13 (2008-03-07)

OMFG, you are a savior, I thought i would never find this. Thanks!!!!!

kevelitoow (2008-03-12)

plz seeed

ProjektEva (2008-03-18)

@ Popocapetl and all those who seeded;
Done in 8 hours, will be seeding for the next couple of weeks. Fantastic upload and very very helpful for running my project 1400cs/133 running CF drives and wireless internet. Fun!
THANKS A MILLION!

srobot (2008-03-23)

FAKE!!!!!

srobot (2008-03-23)

DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!

theGoodSeeder (2008-03-24)

Can you only use this OS on a Mac computer?

TokyoElbow (2008-04-23)

Nice one,
Just burnt it and popped it into my old Japanese OS'd iMac 333. Pressed C and it booted it all into English for me.
Cheers

ck135667 (2008-05-03)

Acutly WinRAR is only a Trial Version i sugest geting 7-Zip it is 100% FREE Open source Sotware
You can get it here:
http://www.7-zip.org/

killalot57 (2008-05-15)

Hello, I downloaded it but I cant extract or mount the file with "magic iso" and when I try to extract it with winrar it says no archives found.

killalot57 (2008-05-15)

I'm talking about the iso image, I can extract the rar file fine but the iso image says "The archive is either in unknown format or damaged"

Popocapetl (2008-05-21)

There's no point in mounting the ISO image if you're on anything other than a Mac OS Classic system. Power ISO can mount these ISOs, even under Windows. It can also extract files from the ISO. Which is pretty much pointless.
This ISO isn't meant to be mounted, it is meant to be burned to a CD. Like when Goldfinger says to 007, "No Mr Bond. I don't want you to talk, I want you to die!". Not the same thing, talking and dying, or mounting and burning...
So go forth and burn the image. In your burning application there should be a menue that says "Burn image" or something along that line.

Popocapetl (2008-05-21)

I'd like to stop the seed of this one and upload another one, same as this, but with some small additions and corrections. There's a serial number missing for instance. How do I stop this torrent?

Miobamiubamiub (2008-08-12)

Well It don't mount. So what? Using os 7 i remember rare file system issue for cd stuff. That's probably it, this image MIGHT was cloned from a rare cd with os 7 compartble file system.
Anyway i just burned image as it is with whatewer, instaled the os and hey, i'm happy it runes well.
Thanks a lot!

jorllox (2008-08-13)

password?
please, I finally finished my download, and the WinRAR says "Password requiered to unrar this package" or something like this
please help! i need this for my old Mac

Popocapetl (2008-08-14)

@ jorllox
There's no password.

vans007 (2009-05-05)

thanks man.very good!!

bluecrxnc (2009-06-18)

I've downloaded this twice on two different PC's, un-RAR'd which gives me the .ISO but none of my burning software likes it. All of them say invalid CD image. I've checked the hash several times which is why i downloaded it again to make sure nothing was wrong.
What program did you guys use to burn with?

bluecrxnc (2009-06-18)

Anyone care to share the MD5 Sum of the resulting .ISO? Thanks!

misanthropic_pony (2009-06-20)

@bluecrxnc
I get the following MD5 checksum from the resulting ISO (named MacOS86.iso):
f300ea8ab0fe9f182d3341bd25f24bd8

bluecrxnc (2009-06-20)

Gah! I've downloaded it several times and used various methods/programs to extract the .ISO and still only get an .ISO that I can't burn with a MD5 of 6d4c97c17e8b0a921eb5c063ed36eb6e

Axasus (2012-02-29)

Hello. Works this on a Virtual Machine ?

papin97 (2012-04-01)

Please SEED.
This Torrent only has 1 seeder.

papin97 (2012-08-09)

THIS FILE IS DIDN'T WORK EVEN ON VM
DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS!

2040tech (2012-08-29)

Well of course it doesnt work in a virtual machine there are currently no virtual machines that can run this on Windows or Mac except for Sheep shaver (google it) but that is an emulator not a virtual machine. The only reason this guy uploaded this is for people to use it on real machines. Chill out dude!