Bootable RAM disk?

[hatemacOSX]

Hello, I have a small project that is due for my company. I need to make a bootable MacOS 9 CD and have it be able to print. The only problem is that it says it can't print cause the disk is locked. I guess no room to spool too. So I made a RAM disk but it wont spool to it. Mac OS 9 also wont let me make the RAM disk bootable?!? I use to do this all the time with my quadra 950 and system 7.1 So whats up with this? blue/gray G4 733. Mac OS 9.2.1.

As you can tell from my name,I hate mac OS X and 9 series. I stick with my 9600/350 mach-V at home and run system 8.5.1 on it and it will be the last mac I will ever own, cause well lets face it.. it pretty much was the last macintosh made except for the G3 desktops. I really miss the system 7 days, but I can't back out of this project.

Thanks

 

[jimoblak]

Why can't you use a writable/bootable hard drive? This task makes little sense.

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[hatemacOSX]

Because these machines are classified and they can't have any media inserted into them, plus they have no hard drives. I dont ask. They dont seem to care about a RAM dish though. I would prefer being able to just boot off of a CD and being able to print, but all I get is a -192 error, or "the disk is locked".

 

[jimoblak]

I am familiar with oddball government classified systems. If you can't have any media inserted into them, how would you get by with inserting a CD? If they have no hard drives then they must be booting from a network drive, right? IF so, set up the printing through these network drives.

For real system security, you should look to OSX 10.3 which has strong encryption on user folders. OS9 is not secure.

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Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[hatemacOSX]

What I mean is that they dont have any hard-drives and the only media they will allow is a bootable system CD to run the thing. I have heard from people talking about turning off the backround printing to eliminate the spool error, but havent tried that yet.

Thanks.