Hey Lonnie, I think it won't work because the FW800 has a DVD drive??? And the iMac 9.2.2 disc is a CD... I'm not too sure about the FW800, never used one? I tried this with my G4 Titanium Powerbook and it didn't work for me either using the install disc 9.2.2 I got with the OS 10.1 package for my G3 iBook Clamshells... I even copied the disc to my iPod and tried that way and still can't get it to work??? So I'm looking for some answers for this too!!! CoolKat
-----Original Message----- >From: lrbarrios <[email protected]> >Sent: Oct 17, 2009 1:11 AM >To: G-Group <[email protected]> >Subject: Classic on an MDD (FW800) running 10.4.11 > > >So I purchased this MDD on eBay sometime in the last year. The seller >wiped the drive and put a fresh install of Tiger on it. With the >machine, I also got the retail DVD of Tiger, still in the box. I >didn't do much with the machine. Just played around a little. The >other day, I decided to reinstall Tiger because I've never installed >OS X before. All the machines I get already have a fresh install on >them. I thought it would be a good exercise. I did it. Everything >is fine. Then I started thinking about getting Classic to run on this >machine. I don't remember that being part of the installation of OS >X. I've looked through the DVD and I don't see any install for OS 9 >on the Tiger disc. I've got a copy of a retail install CD for OS >9.2.1 and an original install CD for OS 9.2.2 (for iMac). I've never >used either of these discs. I thought I'd give them a try. I can't >boot either disc (when holding down the C key at power-on). Is this >because I've got a FW800 model? In the Finder, they show up just >fine. When I try to launch the Mac OS Install on the CD, it says >Classic is starting and then gives me some noise about the volume (the >CD) being read-only. After that, the Classic icon showed up in System >Preferences. How can I install OS 9 on this machine? Quite some time >back I copied OS 9 from one iMac G3 (running OS 9.2.2) to another iMac >G3 (running Tiger) via an external USB drive. This seemed to work >fine to get Classic going (except that I can't boot to OS 9 for some >reason -- and, yes, the hard drive has the OS drivers installed). >While I can probably do that again, I'm really interested in actually >going through the installation procedure of OS 9 on this machine (I >don't think I've ever done that either). Any advice that you can >offer would be much appreciated. Thanks. > >Lonnie. >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
