[G4] Installing os9

[Richard Ramsowr]

Your going to have to use a retail version of OS 9
(9.2)!

Been there done that...

Rich

--- Sims David <dmsims at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Hello Bob,
> 
> Please let us know exactly what OS 9 CD you are
> using. If it is a G4  
> install disk with 9.2 on it, it would have come with
> a  quicksilver.  
> I am not sure it this would cause a problem or not.
> Do you know  
> anyone with a retail version of OS 9 you could try.
> Perhaps the  
> problem is a defective CD?  What about your optical
> drive?
> 
> David
> On May 26, 2006, at 3:31 AM, Bob Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have tried everything, I have a G4 agp, with
> 640mb of ram. Two disk
> > drives, one 80gb and the other 18gb. I have the G4
> install version  
> > of mac os
> > 9.2. It simply will not boot from the cd. I have
> "blessed" the disk  
> > with the
> > start up disk program, and it still won't work.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > On 5/20/06 10:55 PM, "SLarsonIH at aol.com"
> <SLarsonIH at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >> If the OS9 disk is one that comes with OSX, I
> don't believe you  
> >> can boot from
> >> that. I believe it is a restore type disk. You
> may need to install  
> >> OS9 onto
> >> the hard drive and then boot into OS9 on the hard
> drive, from OSX.  
> >> I'm not
> >> talking about booting classic. Then, you can make
> a bootable OS9  
> >> CD. I cannot
> >> boot
> >> from my OS9 install disk either.
> >>
> >> STeve
> >>
> >> << Hi Again,
> >>
> >> Well, I zeroed my disk, reinstalled 10.4 with os9
> drivers, and it  
> >> still will
> >> not boot from os9 cd, I'm at a loss. Thanks to
> all of you who  
> >> offered your
> >> thoughts, I wish I could remember what I had to
> do to make it work  
> >> last
> >> time.
> >>
> >> Thanks again,
> >> Bob >>
> >>
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