Just wiped and re-installed OS X (10.4.6 on now-nefarious G3 iBook / aka:
“Moby Dick”) from the single 2Z691-5811-A DVD install disk… from Apple Retail Tiger 10.4.6 MA453Z/A… and while an OS 9 “Classic” file of some sort may be buried in an OS X tome on the DVD, there’s no option to install “Classic” via this route on a clean, wiped drive.
Perhaps
“Classic” (with Tiger) is dependent upon having OS 9 already present on the drive at the time of the 10.4.6 install? Which would not achieve a dual-boot state (unless OS 9 was already on another partition or other resident HD). Classic “prefs”
do show up under Sys Prefs in 10.4.6
after installing OS 9 (using Universal Installer), whereas it isn’t an option present before.
Check this previous thread detailing dual-boot set up on the G3 iBook using either MacTron’s Bootable Rescue CD & Repair Disk, or the Universal Installer in conjunction with OS 10.2 as a base install:
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,4556.msg32729.html#msg32729 Note: 10.2 ≠ 10.4.6 and a G3 iBook ≠ G4 Cube… but one may glean the *gist of the approach. (*M-O-M / method-of-madness)
Today, after installing 10.4.6 on 1st partition… then installed OS 9.2.2 on the 2nd, using the Universal Installer again to do so.
Thusly, unable to install OS 9
Classic on a wiped drive… only with the Tiger 2Z691-5811-A DVD. I could be mistaken, but I did try... and try & try, again.
“The white whale tasks me“ -Ahab
Anyone need a well-used 800MHz G3 iBook?
I am so very tired of this white whale. (cheap)
And, glad that cvdavidsonjr was able to successfully get Classic up and running, but as suggested by IIO… maybe backing everything up and then installing solo OS 9 from the Universal (or MacTron’s BRCD&DR) discs on one of the partitions (before moving everything back from backup for the others)… might be the route to take for a bootable OS 9 install? Then again, maybe not possible with the Powerlogix 7447a?