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I've posted about this before, but it must have been in Ask because I can't find the thread now.

I'm trying to install ST doing the biggest install so that you don't have to load discs during the game. You are meant to eject disc 1 and then insert disc 2 etc part way through the install. Problem is that I can't eject without quitting first which deletes the install (did OS7 manage this differently?). I'm doing the install via Classic.

Anyone know what to do?

Traveller in Time once with a similar problem under Windoze
"I had to copy the entire disks to the harddrive to get it working without disks .

The program just only wants to know the location of the seperate disks, I also played it using several CD drives."

In theory, if it just wants to know the locations of the discs, you should be able to copy all but the first disc onto the hard drive, then only insert that one when you're playing - you'll need to tell it where to find the other discs when you're playing, but it should remember that next time and that'll save you one disc's worth of HDD space.

umm, have you tried using virtual CDs? Just make dmgs of all the discs and mount them when you want to play, it's what I used to do with all my games...although sometimes the dmg files were empty if all it wanted was to check you had the CD in the drive.

I'm copying the discs to the HDD to see if that will work.

TB, I never got the hang of disc images. How is that different from a straight copy?

Traveller in Time buring ISO images
"An ISO is a file using the ISO 9660 file system as used on CDs.
Some programs require you to use 'the original CD' to run, Starship Titanic is user friendly however. "

"ISO"?

I copied all 3 discs ok, but it still wants me to put in disc one to play. Is there any way around that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO#Products_named_after_ISO

If you've got toast then create a blanck disc image, save it as a dmg file, and give it the exact same volume name as the 1st ST disc. Mount it and try running ST. If you haven't got Toast then you need to use the disc utility. However I'm currently Macless so I can't tell you how to do it that way just now.

Start up disc utility, click on the CD in the list on the left-hand side, then choose "File --> New... --> New Disk Image from (name of your CD)".

When you want to play the game, you double click your disk image file, and it "opens" to look just like a CD has been inserted, thus fooling the game. You can have more than one dmg open at a time, so it looks like you have all the CDs inserted all at once.