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Mac OS 9 Booting and Installing for Beginers
Astrin:
--- Quote from: DieHard on September 29, 2023, 01:29:19 PM ---No problem at all, you are of course welcome to our community and I am glad your stuff is working... I just know that myself and our core members have spent countless hours assembling, creating, and testing stuff for the masses. Our universal install has hit over 300K downloads.
So the only comment that kinda got to me was
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Because I personally have spent many sleepless nights over the last 10 years to help as many I could, we did not whip this thing up in a week and put it on the web. I have said my peace :)
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:D I'm glad we're cool because I could see how much of an effort you've put into this. The instructions and even the layout for the post for the 'unsupported' G4 ISO post shows it. I wrote/spoke rashly due to extreme boomer-ness. Imagine Grampa Simpson shaking his fist, not at the sky as in the meme, but at the Grey Screen of WTF is wrong here. If you need help in testing/evaluating builds I'm available. Thanks again.
macuser:
I am trying to make a bootable macos9.2.2 in PowerBookG4 (1.5MHz 15" (SMS/BT2 - Al, PowerBook5,6 - A1106). However, I stumbled at the 1st step to install os9 driver ...Disk Utility of macOS 10.3.7 that came with this G4 machine, when trying to partition the HD, does not show an option for Apple Partition with os9 driver installation.
I had tried Disk Utility in OS1-.4.11 (Tiger) for another machine.....again no option for Apple Partition.
How can I get an installer with an option for Apple Partition with os9 driver installation?
aBc:
--- Quote from: macuser on April 06, 2024, 07:28:09 PM ---I am trying to make a bootable macos9.2.2 in PowerBookG4 (1.5GHz 15" (SMS/BT2 - Al, PowerBook5,6 - A1106). However, I stumbled at the 1st step to install os9 driver ...Disk Utility of macOS 10.3.7 that came with this G4 machine, when trying to partition the HD, does not show an option for Apple Partition with os9 driver installation.
I had tried Disk Utility in OS1-.4.11 (Tiger) for another machine.....again no option for Apple Partition.
How can I get an installer with an option for Apple Partition with os9 driver installation?
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Only thing I can find is this link:
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=4278.msg29411#msg29411
Sorry not much help, I know. But maybe someone else can chime in here?
Knezzen:
--- Quote from: macuser on April 06, 2024, 07:28:09 PM ---However, I stumbled at the 1st step to install os9 driver ...Disk Utility of macOS 10.3.7 that came with this G4 machine, when trying to partition the HD, does not show an option for Apple Partition with os9 driver installation.
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That option wont be shown if the machine isn't officially supported by Mac OS 9, so you need to boot from the Mac OS 9 for unsupported machines CD and partition your drive that way. Or take the drive our and put it in a supported machine. Not sure if you can "trick" the OSX Disk Utility to show this option regardless though. Can't remember.
macuser:
--- Quote from: MacTron on September 22, 2015, 11:54:26 AM ---
To boot a computer with Mac Os 9, we need:
#1- A Mac Os 9 capable computer.
#2- An HFS volume with Mac Os 9 drivers.
#3- A Mac Os 9 System folder.
Notes:
#1- All g3 and most of G4 are Mac Os 9 capable computers. This can be checked at http://www.everymac.com/. Furthermore, some of unsupported Macs can be booted via special procedures ...
#2- An HFS volume can be a Hard Disk, a CD-ROM or an external device connected via USB (including pendrives), Firewire or eSATA.
Drive Setup (in Mac Os 9) and Disk Utility (in Os X) can format HFS+ devices with Mac Os 9 drivers. Gparted (Linux) can create HFS volumes but without Mac Os 9 drives, so aren't bootables.
#3- In the Mac Os 9 system folder, the Mac Os ROM, System and Finder files are the ONLY files needed to boot (well, the Finder isn't really necessary to boot, in fact it can be changed for any other app), the remaining files and folders are optionals and can be fully wiped for troubleshooting procedures.
The System and ROM versions should be the same or later versions from the ones that the computer come with.
The Startup folder should be selected in the Startup Disk control panel:
This settings can be temporary bypassed pressing the option key during startup:
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