Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

[Kevin O'Grady]

On Feb 4, 2006, at 1:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Kevin - you saying you are trying to install OS 9. Are you trying  
to install
OS 9 to boot into 9 or to run in Classic mode? At some point a  
couple years
back Apple dropped OS 9 as a bootable OS and since then we've only  
been able
to run it from within OS X. For this purpose the old OS 9 drivers  
aren't

needed.

david


The machine's serial # reported (according to http://www.chipmunk.nl/ 
klantenservice/applemodel.html ) it says that it was built in March  
of 2003. As far as I can tell it " is " a dual boot system. The brain  
fart occurs if you don't have the restore DVD. I have a set of 3  
restore disks (+ iMovie 2 (2 disks)), and a restore software "CD" ,  
one will boot and tell me I can't use it with this computer and the  
other refuses to boot. It gets so far and then tells me to start up  
with extensions off  and reports an "error 11". The laptop has 1 Gb  
of memory (maxed out) and a DVD Superdrive 1x. I might be interested  
in beefing up the superdrive, but must cure this non-OS 9 issue  
first. I liked the answer given earlier about trying an original 9.2  
disk and going from there. What I've read from Apple doesn't lean  
toward this as a solution, however, I tend to trust the experience of  
people that actually have/use the same hardware as I do.


TIA

Kevin

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1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

[Kevin O'Grady]

Just got a PB 1GHz laptop yesterday, and it arrived with only 10.3.2  
installed. I tried to get it to load OS 9, but kept getting a  
flashing icon even after using my OSX 10.4 DVD to erase and install  
OS 9 drivers. I read an article from Apple regarding this issue  
(http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61790), but I might  
not possess the recommended install DVD (restore disk) among the ones  
that arrived with it. Other than this glitch, I am very impressed  
with the laptop.


Any and all input would be appreciated.

TIA

Kevin

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