On Feb 14, 2012, at 6:10 PM, Gene Henley wrote:
I have a G3,350 Mhz with no fire wire. It has 9.2.2 What is max HDD
it will accept? How much ram? The disk drive is read only. Will it
accept a CD RW or DVD RW?
I want to make this a Panther or Tiger with Classic capabilities,or
dual boot. OS 9 or OSX. Is this doable?
You've made an error with the description. All the 350MHz iMacs had
Firewire ports. The fastest iMac without a Firewire port was the
333MHz, which is what I assume you have?
You can install 10.4.11 as the maximum OS, BUT, there's an artificial
restriction on the Tiger 10.4 installer that won't allow installation
on an iMac or iBook that doesn't have a Firewire port. There are
several ways to get around this restriction, including using
XPostFacto as an installer (you don't need to install the XPF
extensions, you'd only need XPF's ability to circumvent the installer
restriction), or changing the identity of the Mac in firmware to a
supported Mac, or cloning a previously installed Tiger PPC system, or
creating a custom install DVD or CD or HD or USB stick that's missing
the installer restriction. Cloning is probably easiest. XPF is next
easiest. Needless to say, IF your iMac is truly a 350MHz and has a
Firewire port you can install 10.4 Tiger without any of this nonsense.
Any ATA CDRW or DVDRW is fine, doesn't need to be Apple, but you may
need to remove the faceplate if it's non-Apple.
Max HD is probably the largest ATA available, normally about 500GB.
Max RAM is probably 512MB as 2x256MB SoDimm chips. There are 512MB
SoDimm chips, but it appears the memory controller or the firmware of
the 333MHz iMac won't support these chips? If the 512MB chips do work,
the max would be 1GB. The specification is for PC66, but you can use
PC100 or PC133 also, both of which are more plentiful and readily
available than PC66.
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