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So to recap, copy the system folder from the CD onto read-write media, and let classic update it. It didn’t interfere with my OS X from booting, although the ‘sane person’ would probably have disk image make a small (1gb) read/write virtual disk, and have the installer install to that. It’s probably just easier to install the minimal OS image.Īfter the install you can eject the CD, unmount the read-only copy and tell the classic to stop and then boot from the new installed copy of OS 9 on the OS X disk. It’ll come back with an error, and you can skip the component. Download Wamcom's Mozilla browser v1.3.1 You'll still have problems with some web sites.
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It’s worth noting that just about every optional install fails. Imac G3, Mac OS 9.2.x, its got a 400mhz power pc processor. Now for the best part, I then kicked off the installer from the CD, and had it install a copy of OS 9, onto the OS X disk. After mounting the read only image, it booted!

So I used disk util, and made a new read-only disk image from a directory, and pointed it to a directory that I’d moved the CD’s system folder, desktop to. System Requirements OS Mac OS 8.6 9.2.2 Computer Macintosh (with built-in USB interface) Memory 64MB or more Hard Disk 2MB or more OMS2.3.
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If it’s read-only it does boot up however. USB-MIDI Driver V1.0.7 for Mac OS 9.2.2/8.6 Mac OS 9.1,Mac OS 9.2 The USB-MIDI driver is software that transfers MIDI data back and forth between PC software and Yamaha USB-MIDI devices. So this got me thinking, back in the Sheepshaver days when trying to boot from an ISO as a disk file, it fails the same way because the image is read/write. The system software on the startup disk only functions on the original media, not if copied to another drive. I copied the System Folder from the CD onto the hard disk, and told the classic applette to boot it, and it updated some system files, and then gave me this fine message: Now the OS 9, is an install disc, not one of the recovery discs, and naturally the aluminum powerbooks don’t boot OS 9, so I’m kind of out of luck for getting Classic working, or so I had thought.
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I did luckily buy some CD’s from a user on reddit a few months ago, so I had 10.4 install DVD, and an install of 9.2.2 for the emac. how to boot into os 9.2.2 from os x 10.4.xx without passing through the buggy boot selector: 1) go to terminal 2) type 'sudo nano goto9' 3) past the first or the second line /usr/sbin/bless. I just got another PowerBook, and the disk had been wiped by the prior user, and all it did was boot up to the blinking mac face. Mac OS 9.2.2 Maximum RAM and Real world observations.
