Thank you gang for all of the suggestions. I'll give you some more details on my needs.
I am running a custom scannning program, called Optronics - Coloright Ver 5.2, which was written for the PowerPC. It will NOT run under OSX, any version. It uses two interfaces: A Sentinel Eve3 ADB dongle, and it uses the old HP GPIB IEEE-488 interface. Neither the scanner nor the software is supported any more, and no development has gone on with this stuff for over 10 years. From reading the posts on Yahoo Group scanhi-end, the experence from the 'group' is this guy will run up to OS 9.1, and no further. I'm not sute what fails on 9.2 or 9.2.2, whether it is one of the hardware bits, or whether the software itself just won't run. I see that imate, which I'll need as the G4 has no ADB ports, only has drivers for OSX up to 10.3.9, but has drivers for OS 9. Since the OSX driver is no good to me under 10.4, this will mean that I can't run any application under classic that requires the imate driver, unless I revert back to 10.3 (Panther?), and try running a classic window under that configuration. The other option would be to drop 9.2 on a separate hard driver and dual boot, using 9.2 for my application. I have an imate coming, so I won't be able to test things for a couple of weeks. I am assuming that the GPIB communications will be fine as there are both OS 9 and OSX drivers for the PCI-GPIB board that I also need to run the ap. My intention in all of this was to run this ap on the most modern (lol) PowerPC I could find. The more recent OS's give me better networking, PC compatibility for file sharing, etc, or at least that is what I was thinking. The G4 Digital Audio only cost me $50, so I thought it would be a good 'upgrade' from the original configuration, which is set up on a PowerPC 9500, which has poor USB support, poor(er) networking etc etc. I think I will try the suggestion to mount the 9.2 image file thing, and see if the ap runs. On Mar 3, 2:55 am, smac0031 <m.smurph...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 2, 1:53 am, jsmanson <jsman...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > > I have the above machine with no disks, running 10.4 Panther, with no > > classic installed. I have been trying to install classic, and I need > > OS9.1 (no later) for compatibility with some older hardware. So I > > bought the 9.1 retail install CD, and I have been trying to get this > > beast to boot off the CD with no success. If I boot holding down the > > C key, I get the question mark and smiling face dance for about 1 > > minute as the CD whirls away, after which the system gives up and > > moves on to OSX. > > On my recently deceased DA G4 I had a separate partition for OS 9. > When you format > the HD for OS X I'm pretty sure it will ask you if you want to install > the OS 9 driver. If > you want to run OS 9 this is required. > > I don't think that applies here, though. For a long time I would have > problems > while running under OS 9. I thought I was running OS 9.2.2 which Apple > says > is required to run under OS X. I was actually running OS 9.2.1. When I > upgraded > to OS 9.2.2 the problems went away. > > I don't think that is your problem either. Can you boot anything from > the CD drive? > > I also have an OS 9.1 install disk and I never had a problem booting > it either holding > down the "C" key or selecting it under startup drive. > > It's possible, but unlikely that you could have a corrupted PRAM. You > could try holding > the command and P and R keys on boot up and let it klorg away three or > four times > and the let it boot up. But I doubt that that is the problem either. > > Mark Murphy -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
