Hello Classic Mac OS fans!
I'm running a PowerBook G3 250 MHz (Wallstreet/PDQ not sure which exactly), to keep having fun with the Classic Mac OS, since unfortunately, I have to get rid of my Quadra 630 with Mac OS 7.6
(I'm downsizing and can't keep all my classic computers with me...).
Knowing that MOS9L is the best place for anything regarding Mac OS 9, I downloaded the Mac OS 9 Lives Universal Install CD, and put it into the CD drive, it boots up (very slowly, but eventually), and when I go to Apple System Restore, I am able to open it, format the 120GB Dogfish m.SATA SSD I'm using (with IDE enclosure) with Mac OS Extended, and it will start the process fine.
However, once the window of the restore process begins, the spinning wheel goes for about 2 minutes, it loads the first bit of the restore, and the whole system hangs. The CD will spin for a few minutes more after that, but with no drive activity, and eventually it will stop spinning and the system has to be unplugged or restarted to try again. The CD drive in this PBG3 is flakey and does occasionally need help to get going, but it was spinning and reading fine up to that point, and I've been able to get music and program discs working with it on Mac OS 9.1 on the original hard drive, albeit not a Mac OS disc. The hard drive is also perfectly detected by Disk Setup and is under 128GB, which is the limit as far as I'm aware for a Wallstreet, so I don't think it's the hard drive's fault.
Any help I could get would be really great