[G4] Panther or Tiger?

[Robert MacLeay]

Your idea of booting off the OS9 install CD should work, but I doubt that if
you succeed it will do you any good. Your only option would be to erase the
disk and install OS9 onto the erased disk, and I suspect you do not want to
do that.  Still, you can try inserting the CD and choosing it as the startup
disk from inside System Preferences.


I can think of a couple suggestions, but they involve external drives, which
not all iMac G3s support.

The simplest thing would be to burn a copy of a working OS 9 System Folder
from another Mac onto a CD, and copy it off the CD onto your hard disk.  The
gotchas involved are that:
1) It should be a version which is compatible with your iMac.
2) Any Classic components in the System Folder would be compatible with the
version of OS X presently on your iMac.
3) Your internal hard disk has OS9 drivers installed on it.


On 2/15/06 2:41 PM, Computerman <computerman at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> Thanks everyone for al the replies. What I want to do is run various
> programs that call for classic on OS X Panther. I should have stated that
> this is an iMac G3 that I bought for my granddaughter. We want to be able to
> have her run educational software like Poo Bear and such. Every time we
> insert a disk it calls for classic, and of course when we try to run classic
> in the system preferences it stated that it is not installed. I read
> somewhere on the net that all I had to do was to install the OS 9 system
> folder. I cannot find where I read that unfortunately. Also to complicate
> matters when we insert OS 9 and hold down the c key it does nothing. The
> computer just freezes at a blank grey screen.