[graphics84]

I'm trying to help out a friend that packed a dual 500 full of data... it's so full it won't start up the system...

It would be so easy if I could just start off a CD then move some data to a exteral FW drive and make some space... but it looks like all the disks they come with are installers only?

Is that true?

is there a key comand so the disk start up as a system?

anyone know?

I have the original disks it came with and my own 10.2 disks...

thanks

[bleee]

If you mean boot up off the 10.2 cds hold "c" on bootup make sure you have the cd in the drive before you boot up. Or you could if you had 2 macs put your friends iBook in target disk mode "t" on boot up hook your friends ibook to another mac with a firewire cable mount it on the other mac and get the data off.

[ccsccs7]

The 10.2 installer CD doesn't allow access to the Finder to copy the files using the iBook. Try the Mac OS 9 install CD.

Otherwise, you'd be best off using Target Disk Mode to use another mac to do the copying.

[PenguinChiller]

Yeah, OS9 should have support for Appletalk when it starts up from CD, just network both computers and transfer the data.