You need to look at LowEndMac.com You can run OS10.4 Tiger WITH something called ExPostFacto
Free from OWC. You HAVE to swap out the CD-ROM drive for a DVD-RW burner. Using the Expansion Bay sled from that drive. As per instructions found at LowEndMac. The article is by an Englishman whose name I forget. Write Dan Knight, there, about this if al else fails. Any mid 2000s tray loading thin laptop burner will work... $5 to $10 on eBay... shipping would be more than that.. I've done all that, and MORE to my 1999 PB G3/333 Lombard. Also added a 400Mhz. logic board to get the DVD decoder. Which only works with OS9.2.2.. One ends up with 512MB RAM and A 1MB L2 Cache Plays DVD movies just fine..... even ripped ones Under 10.4 Tiger ones uses VLC for PPC to play DVDs with a slight hiccup over 10 or 15 seconds Not so bad.. You need to search YouTube for people who have done all these things to their Lombards.... I could not give you all the instruction you need.... Good luck! J.C. On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Kostsei Kuolematon < [email protected]> wrote: > I've bought an old iMac G3 (333MHz, 128MB RAM), no firewire, no DVD, no CD > burning. Since it doesn't support Airport, I've found and bought an old USB > WiFi adapter, but still it only has drivers for OS X 10.3 while I have 10.1 > at the moment. I've replaced hard drive for 120GB one and was able to > reinstall the original OS 8.5, then 9.2.2 and finally OS X 10.1. I've > checked the firmware update and it's up to date, the hard drive is also > fine. Actually everything works until it comes to 10.3 install. > > I wanted to buy the original retail OS X Panther, but couldn't find it in > Moscow (Russia). I've searched on Ebay and Amazon but the prices (including > shipping to my destination) were unacceptable — I can't afford to pay $200+ > for a hopelessly outdated OS... So I had no option rather then > downloading OS from the internet. I've downloaded several versions, burned > install discs on my MacBook Pro under OS X 10.11 with Toast Titanium. But > most of the CDs didn't boot and iMac doesn't even read them. The one set (3 > install CDs) seemed fine, it boots and verifies the CD (okay), than > installation begins, but it always gets stuck at 76%, computer gets > unresponsive. And if I try the install once again right after it failed, > the disc doesn't boot and gets stuck at white screen or white screen with > logo. After some time switched off it works again. Some discs are read on > MacBook, but won't read on iMac. And also when I tried to verify the > install CD with Disk Utility it reported "Error: No valid packages > (-9997)". I can't understand whether my install CD is bad (but how the > install verifies it normally than?), or iMac optical drive? Or both? I've > tried to find out what this error on CD could mean, but couldn't find > anything. > > I've been struggling with this iMac for almost 3 weeks and have spent more > money, than the computer itself did cost. This is especially hard because I > live in Russia and it's barely possible to find the spare parts for the old > Apple computers and shipping from abroad became too expansive, while I've > bought this computer only because it's fun and interesting thing for me, > but I'm not going to work on it, cause I have the modern MacBook, so I > didn't plan to spend really lot of money for simply having this toy-like > computer working. > > Any help is much appreciated! > > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
