On Oct 1, 10:18 am, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote:
My mother-in-law, an elderly and stubborn lady (though nice) refuses
to give up her old 1 GHz iMac (the half-soccer-ball novelty with the
little monitor-on-a-stem sticking out of it) even though it dates from
the Jurassic Period of computing and
*Tiger SNOW *or *Leopard SNOW*...the OsX name is wrong but if you have
Leopard Snow or just Leopard for native Mac's the Run on Classics ( OsX 9.2
) NOT longer available.
...you don't have a CD with OsX 9.1. But you can get it for a reasonable
price on eBay.
After get it for Run on Classics . Be
Is this a different topic?
I want to be able to run OS 9-bootable (and run Illustrator,
Photoshop) on an imac with 10.5.8 Tiger snow?)
On Oct 2, 7:21 am, beecaretaker ben64sm...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Oct 2, 5:31 am, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote:
Thanks, Yersinia, but that option, to
Howdy,
Good for her. That is a lovely little machine and worth some trouble
to get working. I am thrilled with my new(to me) G3 notebook. The next
2 machines I want are the machine your mother-in-law has and a G5 tower.
Since you have a new hard drive, try an experiment. Install Tiger on
hi,
as an option, ide disks have limit capacity jumppers on. you can try
to put a jumper on and then try if disk utility can format the drive
with install 9 drivers option.
afaik, old iMacs had the same thing with disks greater than 128 GB's.
On Oct 2, 2009, at 6:30 AM, Tom wrote:
On Oct 2, 2009, at 6:30 AM, Tom wrote:
Thanks, Yersinia and Taner. Well, I can start the old iMac up with the
10.4 installer disk, and then use its Disk Utility to format the new
drive, but no matter how I try it (either Erase or Partition), I am
not given any option to install any OS 9
On Oct 2, 5:31 am, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote:
Thanks, Yersinia, but that option, to install the OS 9 drivers, is not
offered by the Disk Utility that is on the Tiger Installer. So I dug
around in my old disc collection and found a 10.1 installer disk, but
discovered on starting up with it
SUCCESS! Thanks very much Ralph, Taner, Kris, and Ben. It's very good
of you all to take the time to help me out here. Ralph, you're right,
the more I fool around with this little Mac the more fond I'm getting
of the thing. I like the way the monitor swivels around so smoothly
into any position
On Oct 2, 7:19 pm, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote:
NOW, I've got one last question for anybody who might have an answer:
We are in the process of putting all the lady's data back on the
drive, from a backup that was made onto an external drive when the old
internal drive began to go flakey. She
Tom writes,
My mother-in-law, an elderly and stubborn lady (though nice) refuses
to give up her old 1 GHz iMac (the half-soccer-ball novelty with the
little monitor-on-a-stem sticking out of it) even though it dates from
the Jurassic Period of computing and we all keep telling her she'd be
hi...
you can simply startup with tiger DVD and split your HD into two
partitions using disk utility. i'm not sure but i think it could be
necessary to book a part that is smaller than 128 gb's for classic.
as you partition your HD it no matter which OS you install first...
On Oct 1, 2009,
Thanks, Yersinia and Taner. Well, I can start the old iMac up with the
10.4 installer disk, and then use its Disk Utility to format the new
drive, but no matter how I try it (either Erase or Partition), I am
not given any option to install any OS 9 drivers. It just doesn't
offer that option. Am I
Tom writes,
Thanks, Yersinia and Taner. Well, I can start the old iMac up with the
10.4 installer disk, and then use its Disk Utility to format the new
drive, but no matter how I try it (either Erase or Partition), I am
not given any option to install any OS 9 drivers. It just doesn't
offer that
Thanks, Yersinia, but that option, to install the OS 9 drivers, is not
offered by the Disk Utility that is on the Tiger Installer. So I dug
around in my old disc collection and found a 10.1 installer disk, but
discovered on starting up with it that it has no Utilities menu on it
at all. It cannot
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