bobdea Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 that you could copy for me, my bone headed neighbor tried installing OS X without updating his firmware on a old ass G3, OS X installs but won't run and he does not have his OS 9 discs in single user mode there are some pretty comical messages that go by then it panics saying "we are hanging here" or if someone is willing to seed a torrent and give me the link it sure would make my day looking for OS 8.5 to 9.2.2 hopefully with the firmware update this thing should run fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derf Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 I have a copy that a friend made for me of OS 9.2.1. He showed me that you can download the image from Apple's website when you are a registered Apple tech. The MacOS X support depends on the age of the Mac. My "Old World" Mac G3 266 support up to 10.2 (haven't tried it) and my "New World" Mac G3 300 supports up to 10.3. In essence, Old World does not have onboard USB and New World does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted June 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 just old and never got system updates or firmware updates do you have a link? if it's the same as being a registered developer I am one even though I can't write code for **** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirror70 Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 I have OS 7 through OS 9. Let me know what you want and I'll put disc images up fri night. If your friend has a blue & white G3, OS X may not run on it no matter what, depending on how old it is. If it's a beige G3, it just isn't gonna happen without 3rd party hacks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted June 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 so it should be supported, I know that my imac from the same product cycle was OS 9 should do it, with OS 9 installed I can at least update the firmware and run some hardware tests after that should OS X not want to run for whatever reason it will get a copy of yellow dog, or if I have to keep OS 9 on it and and run it like that this whole thing was based on that he saw the setup I have here and wanted to emulate it, basically using the old box with a couple of big hard drives to hold media files such as movies and have it connected to the other machines over wireless yeah, put a image up and give me a link to it thanks a bunch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirror70 Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 While officially, all of the blue & white G3s were supported, in reality the early ones were not. I know this from personal experience. So which version of the MacOS do you want? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted June 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derf Posted June 10, 2006 Report Share Posted June 10, 2006 It depends which version of MacOS X you were trying. 10.3 should work. http://lowendmac.com/ has some good info as to which Mac supports which version of OS X and how. You may need to use XPostFacto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirror70 Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 Bob, I can't seem to find my old MacOS CDs. They may have gotten tossed, or possibly given away with the computers they came with. I'll keep digging and let you know if I find anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted June 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 but thanks anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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