Hi all, I do apologise if this problem has been posted lots of times.
I have a 400mHz AGP graphics G4 running 9.2.2 on which I run Protools LE 5.2. Way back I bought a Glyph FireWire drive, which I formatted and partitioned with OS9 drivers (probably using Panther), and found I could boot from it without any problem if I just dragged and dropped the system folder from the internal drive.
Always nervous that everything is going to suddenly die on me, six months ago I bought a second hardly-used Glyph drive off EBay, which works fine, but I want to be able to boot from that as well in case my other one gives up (it's had a LOT of hours use). Trouble is, my MacBook Pro running Sierra doesn't give you the option in disk utility of installing OS9 drivers, and neither does my old MacBook running Snow Leopard. I can't format from the G4 as the G4 doesn't support it, even connected by USB.
It seem I need to find someone who still has a machine running Leopard, as that I think is the last OS that had a box marked 'install OS9 drivers' in disk utility.
I have a disk of Tiger 10.4 but although the G4 acknowledges it as a start-up possibility in Control Panels, it won't allow me to select it, or apparently to install it.
Is there a workaround? Can I get a local geek to add the OS9 driver in Terminal?
Many thanks for any help.....
Regards/Tim