There's a novel based on this business (TekServe) that I read a few years ago. It's called Laserwriter II. Here's my review of that novel if you're interested:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RBJR40M4IMXW8/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8

No problem. Much obliged.

Hopefully this ”404 Not Found" situation is only temporary.
Have checked it just now and two hours ago and still reporting same.

In the meantime, you might try the Hotline server…



Or…
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-922-install-unsupported-g4s 

Apologies for any inconvenience. 

Given the recent problems (hacked) with the Internet Archive…
may I suggest you try “our” download to see if you fare better?

Try this: http://macos9lives.com/downloads
and opt for the second listed download.

"404 Not Found" for all download links

It does take a bit of time (and effort) to navigate this site but as you become more familiar with it… even as it can be a bit quirky — there are a many absolute mountains of info and insight(s) to be had from such effort.

Have you recently changed any (even seemingly minute) preferences for Adobe Acrobat or Mosaic?

Whatever the case, I’d possibly use the backup drive (or restore) it’s content to your primary drive AFTER backing up everything that’s currently on your primary drive, so that work files or saved files (and some applications) could then be moved back to the “new” primary as needed.

You might also consider allocating more available memory (RE: the Type 2 error) for use by Mosaic, etc.

And then there’s always trashing related preferences.

Hope you get it worked out… if you’ve not done so already.

“He and a partner founded Tekserve, a Manhattan emergency room for frozen hard drives, keyboards, screens and their confounded owners.” -NY Times

If the following link works for you, I’d very strongly suggest a read of this NY Times article about David Lerner (and especially all of the comments there too). Sounds like a much more personal and friendlier precursor to what some of us know as the “Apple Store”. (Only muy much better.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/technology/personaltech/david-lerner-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E8.zUxu.UE04PIhN9wte&smid=url-share

Or, brief Wikipedia info here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekserve

Wonder if DieHard knew or ever met this guy?

And I think maybe David Lerner had some of the same spirit that some of us here often exhibit?

Thanks, that
s helpful

What super work this is! My brain is hurting from reading your post a few times  With great timing I just got a few Firewire drives to back up my Mac Mini, but I think these are now going to be used for a System 7 partition!

Quote from: n8blz on November 27, 2025, 03:28:43 PM

Quote from: Jubadub on November 27, 2025, 10:13:03 AM

I have thoroughly tested Mac OS 9.2.2 with this new ROM combination (latest Rairii 10.2.1 + latest Mac mini G4 patches AKA v9 patches), and from what I could tell, everything behaves exactly the same as with the previous ROM we always used.

Long shot, but, is the mouse-freezing bug still present?

You know... Now that you mention it, I don't think I encountered it. But maybe I was just "lucky": even with the previous ROM, it was not THAT common for me to encounter it (but at the same time, it wasn't exactly very rare).

If you have a mini, are you able to check it on your end, as well? The more people we have trying this out, the more likely we are to truly find out.

I suspect the mouse glitch probably remains, since as far as we know it's a shortcoming to be addressed in our patches for the mini rather than Apple's own code, but... who knows?

I'm afraid I can confirm, at least on a 1.5Ghz Mac Mini, the mouse freezing issue is still there. Oh well :-)

Thank you for offering to help me out, Gary!

Good point about doing it myself. I'll see what I can cobble together and if I get stuck I'll reach out. Thanks again

Welcome to Mac OS 9 Lives!