This note is a month late for your purpose, I expect, but just to add my 2 cents... The Youtube video is on target for you. While the installed OS 9 would give you a Mac introduction of sorts, a better experience would be provided by updating to OS 10.3 at least; adding (inexpensive) RAM to the max is easy and highly desirable. A detail: after installing OS X, you will be able to boot up in either that or the OS 9 which you leave installed as you install OS X "over" it. However, Mac offers a second way to access your OS 9-based software called "classic mode," and for that option I think you would need to ensure that you have version 9.2.
On Jan 12, 8:50 am, PaulBX <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just bought an iMac G3 350Mhz from eBay. I wanted a cheap > introduction to the world of the Mac and tt seemed that all other Macs > were a lot more expensive. At the moment it's got only 192Mb RAM, a > 7Gb hard drive, and a CD-ROM drive. The installed OS is version 9. I > know from watching a video on YouTube that I can upgrade it to 1Gb > RAM, 128Gb hard drive, DVD-ROM drive and OS X 10.3. > > At the moment I can't connect to my Virgin Media WiFi network, so I > thought I'd ask here for some advice. It seems there are three > possible ways. > > 1. Connect an Ethernet cable to my Netgear WiFi router > 2. Fit an "Airport" card which may or may not need an adapter or > caddy > 3. Plug in a USB WiFi adapter available on eBay, which would also > require a USB hub, or some other USB adapter, because I'm already > using both the USB ports for keyboard and mouse. Unfortunately, I've > already done a test with my ZTE 3G USB modem, which comes with Mac > installation software stored on it, but this software doesn't run > under Mac OS 9 and it doesn't detect the USB modem at all. > > Any advice would be appreciated. The iMac was delivered with lots of > software installed on the hard drive, so I don't want to delete this > when I upgrade to OS X. Can you tell me how to avoid deleting it, or > perhaps I can install an additional hard drive, while keeping the old > hard drive in place. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
