Ok, so, is there some minimum OS 9 requirement for a G4 DA to boot into 9? Here is what occured. I found an old hard drive of mine that had 9.1 on it, and I installed it in the G4. Upon restart, the hard drive was visible in the Finder; in fact, 2 drives appeared--- I think i must have made a small emergency boot partition on this drives years ago [2004 is when I last used it].
Now, first question. Was I supposed to press some sort of reset button or cuda switch when I installed the drive? Is it too late? I see 2 small buttons on the front of the mac under the power button. 2nd question. The Panther install this mac has did not seem to have any OS 9 on it whatsoever. I had copied a 9 i had on an iBook, but, it gave error messages launching classic so I gave up on it. So tonite, I renamed that 9 to previous system folder, then copied the system folder from my old hard drive to my boot drive. It launched Classic but did not want to launch Classilla--said could not find 'find by content' and other missing components. I REALIZED that 7 years ago, I had turned off a lot of extensions; so I had to turn all on in the Classic preferences. Ok, so now, Classic is running fine, but, still no botting into 9 even when I set the System Preferences to boot into 9 from the correct folder. -- 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
