As an update. This installation of 9.2 didn't in fact work - it didn't activate the PCI bus for some reason, and resulted in a system error if I put any PCI driver in the extension list. I think the 9.2 OS 'image' file was NFG.
So I started all over again, I erased the spare drive, labeled it OS922, and tried to install ANY version of OS 9, all to no avail, including the netbook image thing from the Apple Site as was suggested by one of the earlier posts. That failed at the very end of the installation, just said there was an error with the installation, and stopped without placing any files on the hard drive. NO idea why that didn't go. I CANNOT get this machine to boot from a CD drive, with the retail CD of 9.1 (Not copied, it has the apple logo on it), and I can't get it to go with ISO files of 9.1, 9.22, and 9.21, they all do the same thing - a quick read from the CD, and the system then boots to OS X 10.4. Pressing "C" on the keyboard does nothing. Telling OS-X to boot off the CD drive (It sees the CD, and calls it OS 9.1, so it lets me select the CD to boot) doesn't work. It looks like whatever I do, moving dmg files to the hard disk and trying to run the setup directly from the hard disk, etc ,etc, won't work. if I can't boot this thing off a CD, I won't get OS 9 installed. I'm pretty well ready to give this thing up and get another machine with OS 9.something already installed. Windows (mess that it is) is easier to install than this. Oh yes, I did the PRAM thing as well - two beeps - nothing. I'm happy to report that 10.4 boots reliably, too bad my ap just doesn't like that puppy. The only thing I have left to try is to remove the hard drive with OSX on it, so the machine will have no OS to boot except for the one on the CD - I suspect I'll just get a dead machine at that point. Sorry about my frustration - but I have spend probably 50 hrs on this so far. Any other ideas folks? On Mar 5, 4:58 am, jsmanson <[email protected]> wrote: > OK gang, I got OS 9.2 running on it's own drive now, will boot in > classic mode from 10.4, or on it's own. The system does give me a > heap error: "Not enough memory to install heap for the USB bus", but > it seems to be a non-fatal error as the system does complete it's > booting. Setting extensions to base solves that problem. > > BUT - my new problem is that I can't get a PCI-GPIB card from N.I. to > work sucessfully in 9.2. If I put the card in the machine without > drivers, 8.2 loads OK with no errors, but if I install what looks to > be the latest Mac OS GPIB extensions (N.I. PCI-GPIB driver ver 7.6.7 I > think it was, got it from the National Instrument website, dated > 2001), the system generates a fatal system error on boot. > > Of interest, I can boot sucessfully to OSX 10.4, with the newer Mac > OSX GPIB drivers, and the card works fine there - but my ap won't run > in 10.4. From 10.4 I can run classic, but the OS9.2 GPIB drivers don't > load. > > So I think this may be why I was originally wanting to run my ap > under9.1 in the first place, as others may not have had success geting > a PCI-GPIB card woring correctly under MacOS 9.2. > > So has anyone been sucsessful with this configuration? > > John -- 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
