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 < kostsei.kuolema...@gmail.com> 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 for a hopelessly outdated OS...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 imaclist@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 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 imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
