[G4] looking for OS 9.2.2 (late 2002)

[Ronnie Day]

Looking back at Dave's purpose for needing to run OS 9, I wonder if
the Pro Tools he has will even run in Classic. He may need to have a
separate partition or HD with 9 installed.

RD

>>> Dave
>>>
>>> > I have a 4 disk recovery set (OS 9.2.2 & OS X) but that is not >
>>> > working, it keeps telling me after the first disk "communication > error,
>>> > check helper tool, application bundle"?  I would like to buy > an original
>>> > OS9 disk can you lead me in any direction?
>
> Ben

> This error is probably because of the version of OSX you are running,
> assuming you have the correct recovery set for the MDD you need to be
> running OS 10.2.8 in order to install 9.2.2, the installer won't work with
> newer versions of X.
> There is an updated installer utility somewhere on the Apple site (search
> support for MDD) that will work with 10.4 (but not I think 10.5 as that does
> not support classic).
> Failing that you may be able to extract 9.2.2 using "Pacifist" and manually
> install it.
> However as others have pointed out it MUST be the MDD specific version of
> 9.2.2 NOT the retail version (the MDD is the only OS 9 capable machine that
> CANNOT run the retail version (unless you patch it!) as it came out after
> 9.2.2 and needs specific ROM files and drivers for among other things the
> IDE chipset).
>
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