If you are unsure about the disc images you downloaded, I can give you a link to my Dropbox with images I have personally burned and used for installation many times.
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 4:34 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 for a hopelessly outdated OS...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. -- [Greg Bennett] -Independent Carpenter, Electrician & Lighting Designer -Purveyor of Classic Apple & Macintosh Gear http://www.hsiprodsvcs.com/ http://www.macshack.us/ -- 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.
