Sonnet Technologies Presto Plus Processor Upgrade with Mac OS 8 User Manual

Mac OS 8 Installation Instructions for Sonnet
Presto and Presto Plus Processor Upgrade Cards

What You Need:

• Sonnet™Presto™or Presto Plus processor upgrade card.

• Sonnet Presto 8 Enabler Boot diskette.

• Macintosh

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compatible CD-ROM drive.

• Mac™OS 8.0 or 8.1 software package (sold separately).

• Minimum of 16 MB of RAM.

• Approximately 100 MB of free hard drive space for
basic software installation; additional hard drive
space for optional components.

Software Installation Overview

Please review the following guidelines prior to installing Mac OS 8:

• Mac OS 8 requires a 68040 processor or better. You must upgrade
your 68020 or 68030 Macintosh with a Presto or Presto Plus
processor upgrade card before installing Mac OS 8.

• Make a backup of important information on your hard drive prior to
installing new hardware or software.

• If you are installing Mac OS 8 from a non-Apple CD-ROM drive, or
wish to review Apple’s guidelines for installing Mac OS 8, refer to the

Mac OS 8 Installation Guide.

• To avoid Mac OS 8 software conflicts you may need to update
third-party extensions and control panels. Contact the software
manufacturers or visit their web sites for software updates.

• For the installation of Mac OS 8 we recommend performing a
“clean” installation of the system software. A clean installation
creates a completely new System Folder for Mac OS 8. The current
System Folder on your hard drive is untouched and renamed
Previous System Folder. This allows you to easily return to your
old system software if you need or choose to do so.

1. Your should already have a Presto or Presto Plus processor upgrade card

and accompanying Presto software (Figure 1) installed in your computer.
If not, refer to your Macintosh model installation instructions packaged
with the Presto or Presto Plus for further instructions.

2. If your Macintosh is turned on, shut it down. Locate the Presto 8

Enabler Boot diskette (Figure 2) from the packaging materials.

3. If you have an Apple manufactured CD-ROM drive, skip to step 4. If you

have a third party manufactured CD-ROM drive, you need to install the
third-party CD-ROM driver software from your hard drive to the floppy
diskette as follows:

• Unlock the diskette by raising the lock tab (Figure 3), then insert the
diskette into the floppy disk drive. Open the System Folder on the
floppy diskette and locate the Extensions Folder. Open the Extensions
folder, locate the Apple CD-ROM extension (Figure 4), and move it to
the trash. Empty the trash.

• Copy the third party CD-ROM driver software from the System Folder
on your hard drive to the closed System Folder on the floppy
diskette. Usually it is an extension that is installed in the Extensions
Folder. If you are uncertain about the driver software installed on your
computer, refer to your CD-ROM drive user’s manual for details.

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Figure 1: Hardware/software required for Mac OS 8

Figure 2: Presto 8 Enabler Boot diskette

Figure 3: Location of floppy diskette lock

Figure 4: Apple CD-ROM extension icon

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4. Insert the Presto 8 Enabler Boot diskette into the floppy disk drive. Turn

on your Macintosh. The computer will boot from the diskette which in
turn will allow you to install Mac OS 8.

5. After the computer finishes booting, insert the Mac OS 8 CD into the

CD-ROM drive; the Mac OS 8 CD will appear on the desktop.

6. Locate and double-click the Mac OS Installer (Figure 5).

7. At the Welcome screen click ‘Continue’ (Figure 6).

8. At the Select Destination screen (Figure 7) perform the following:

• From the Destination Disk pop-up menu select the hard drive
(Figure 7) where you plan to install Mac OS 8. For the purposes of
these instructions, it should be the same hard drive where your
current system software resides.

• Click ‘Perform Clean Installation’ (Figure 8).

• Then, click ‘Select’ (Figure 9).

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Figure 5: Mac OS Installer icon

Figure 6: Welcome to Mac OS 8.5 Screen

Figure 7: Select destination disk for Mac OS 8.5

Figure 8: Click ‘Options’ for Clean Install

select hard drive

click ‘Continue’

Figure 9: Click ‘Select’ to continue installation

click ‘Perform Clean Installation’

click ‘Select’

Support Note: If the driver software does not fit onto the

floppy diskette, you need to create a Presto 8 Enabler Boot disk with
sufficient disk space for the additional software. One way to accomplish
this is to copy the files from the Presto 8 Enabler Boot diskette onto a Zip
disk or external hard drive, install the third-party CD-ROM driver software,
and boot from the Zip disk or external hard drive.

Support Note: It is important to boot your Macintosh from the

Presto 8 Enabler Boot diskette otherwise you will not be able to
install Mac OS 8.

Mac OS 8 Installation Instructions - Presto and Presto Plus Processor Upgrade Cards

9. At the Important Information screen read the Installing Mac OS 8

onscreen documentation; click ‘Continue’ (Figure 10).

10. At the Software License Agreement screen read the software license agree-

ment; click ‘Continue’. A dialog box appears asking you to agree to the
terms of the software license agreement. If you agree, click ‘Agree’
(Figure 11).

11. At the Install Software screen (Figure 12) you have the option to:

• Select the software you wish to install by checking or unchecking the
software components of your choice.

• Click ‘Customize” to customize the system software even further.

• Click ‘Options’ to select the option of updating hard disk drivers
formatted by Apple disk utility software.

• Click ‘Start’ to begin the installation of Mac OS 8.

If you wish to install the default system software selected by the
installer, simply click ‘Start’.

12. A dialog box may appear stating that the Mac OS Installer will auto-

matically quit all running applications to begin the software
installation. If this occurs, click ‘Continue’ to begin the installation.

13. The Mac OS Installer will first check the integrity of your hard drive,

which will take several minutes depending on the size of your hard
drive. If the hard drive is functioning properly the installer will begin
the installation. Refer to the troubleshooting section of the Mac OS 8
Installation Manual for further instructions should a problem arise.

14. After the installation is complete a dialog box will appear asking if

you would like to continue to install other software or quit from the
installation; select ‘Quit’ (Figure 13).

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Figure 10: Important Information screen

click ‘Continue’

Figure 11: Agree to Software License Agreement

then click ‘Agree’

Figure 12: Click ‘Start’ to Install Mac OS 8

click ‘Start’

Figure 13: Click ‘Quit’ to exit from the Installer

click ‘Quit’

first click ‘Continue’

Support Note: By default, Personal Web Sharing and OpenDoc are

installed as part of the installation process of Mac OS 8. To conserve
space on your hard drive and the amount of RAM used by the system soft­ware, you may want to uncheck these components from the Install Software
screen. They are optional software components that can always be installed
at a later time.

Mac OS 8 Installation Instructions - Presto and Presto Plus Processor Upgrade Cards

15. MOST IMPORTANT STEP! - Before using Mac OS 8 you need to
update the newly created System Folder with the Presto software
from the Previous System Folder. This step enables your Macintosh
to boot with the Presto or Presto Plus processor upgrade card and
Mac OS 8.

To update the newly created System Folder, perform the following:

• Close all open windows on your screen.

• Locate and double click the icon for the hard drive you selected for the
installation of Mac OS 8; a window will appear showing the contents of
the hard drive. Move the window to the upper left corner of the screen.
Depending on your system setup and files, the window should appear
similar to one illustrated for the Macintosh HD window (Figure 11).

• Locate and double click the Previous System Folder. A window will
appear showing the contents of the folder. Move the window under­neath the window of the hard drive with Mac OS 8. Depending on your
system setup and files, the window should look similar to one illustrated
for the Previous System Folder window (Figure 11).

• From inside the Previous System Folder, locate the Presto 8 Enabler,
click on it once to select it, and while holding down the option key, drag
the icon of the Presto 8 Enabler directly onto the new System Folder
(Figure 12). This process will make a copy of the Presto 8 Enabler in the
new System Folder.

• From inside the Previous System Folder, locate the Presto 7 Enabler,
click on it once to select it, and while holding down the option key, drag
the icon of the Virtual Enabler directly onto the new System Folder
(Figure 13). This process will make a copy of the Virtual Enabler in the
new System Folder.

• From inside the Previous System Folder, double click the Extensions
Folder; a window will appear showing the contents of the Extensions
Folder. Locate the Presto extension, click on it once to select it,
and while holding down the option key, drag the icon of the Presto
extension directly onto the new System Folder (Figure 14). A dialog box
will appear stating that the extension needs to be placed in the
Extensions Folder; click ‘OK’. This process will make a copy of the
Presto extension in the new System Folder.

16. Restart your computer.

17. As the computer boots, hold down the Option-Command () keys to

rebuild your Macintosh Desktop file.

18. After the computer finishes rebuilding the Desktop file, your computer
should boot with Mac OS 8.

19. Since your new System Folder was performed as a clean installation of
the system software, your third-party extensions, control panels, and
fonts will not be installed in the new System Folder. You will need to
copy or move these files from the Previous System Folder to the new
System Folder. Before doing so we strongly recommend you verify their
compatibility with Mac OS 8. Contact the software manufacturers or
visit their web sites for software updates.

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Figure 11: Hard drive & Previous System Folder windows

Figure 13: Copy Presto 7 Enabler to System Folder

Figure 14: Copy Presto extension to System Folder

Figure 12: Copy Presto 8 Enabler to System Folder

Support Note: Remember that anytime you update or move files

around in your System Folder, it must always have the Presto 8
Enabler, Presto 7 Enabler, and Presto extension installed, otherwise your
computer will not recognize the Presto or Presto Plus processor upgrade
card and the Mac OS 8 system software.