jpmyst wrote: Now that that SheepShavers starts and the OS 9.0 installation begins the installer says that "This disk is unreadable by this Computer . Do you want to initialize the disk?" with a choice of either Initializing or Ejecting with the option to initialize an untitled drive with ...

Thank you for replying so quickly. The DVD player does work and the OS 9.0 CD is mounted on the desktop and your solution to make a Disk image worked. I suspect that SheepShaver does not have the appropriate driver to run the DVD player in my Macbook Pro and that is why the drive was silent when I s...

I followed the procedure outlined in the document "Setting up SheepSaver for Mac OS X" but I haven't been able to get SheepShaver for OS X to start so I tried your standalone procedure to see if I could have better success. Unfortunately, I got the identical results in both cases: the Shee...