1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

2006-02-04 Thread 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

Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

2006-02-04 Thread Geoffrey Peters
Stardate 060204.12:14 -0500. A subspace message from Kevin O'Grady reads: Just got a PB 1GHz laptop ... 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. Where are you getting your Mac OS 9 from? If you're

Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

2006-02-04 Thread Woody Duncan
Kevin O'Grady wrote: 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

Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

2006-02-04 Thread Clark Martin
At 10:33 AM -0700 2/4/06, Woody Duncan wrote: I have a 1GHz powerbook I've had for 3 years or so. It came with OS 10.? I have since upgraded to OS 10.4. It has always had OS 9 on it. I have programs from my old i-mac like Photoshop 7.0 and Windows 2000 for the Mac. When I open those

Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

2006-02-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/4/06 12:14 PM, Kevin O'Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

2006-02-04 Thread B.L.
G-Books wrote on 2/4/06, 11:50: 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 * If this is a powerbook G4 then perhaps it can't load OS9.2.2 because it

Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

2006-02-04 Thread 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

Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

2006-02-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/4/06 2:13 PM, Kevin O'Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

2006-02-04 Thread Illovox Media
on 2/4/06 9:50 AM, G-Books at G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com wrote: Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 04:24:24 +1100 From: Geoffrey Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes Stardate 060204.12:14 -0500. A subspace message from Kevin O'Grady reads: Just got a PB 1GHz laptop

Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

2006-02-04 Thread Kevin Causey
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

Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

2006-02-04 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
Make sure your Powerbook *can* boot from 9. I donĀ¹t remember which was the last, but it was somewhere near that vintage that 9 boot support ended. Wasn't it the last Ti - 867/1GHz ? I don't think ANY Al can boot into 9. -- Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic

Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

2006-02-04 Thread sandra ragan
On Feb 4, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Kevin Causey wrote: I was able to install OS 9 on a PB G4 my 1 gig Big Al won't boot from 9 at all... it runs Classic poorly as some system level stuff won't install... I was under the impression it was an Apple induced ROM decision... is that incorrect?

Re: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes

2006-02-04 Thread Lawrence Sica
On Feb 4, 2006, at 7:55 PM, sandra ragan wrote: On Feb 4, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Kevin Causey wrote: I was able to install OS 9 on a PB G4 my 1 gig Big Al won't boot from 9 at all... it runs Classic poorly as some system level stuff won't install... I was under the impression it was an

os 9 install

2004-05-27 Thread illovox
From: John A [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to get 9 on disk w/o drivers Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 03:55:29 -0500 CCC is not the only solution...you can just drag a 9 set up directly to your disk. Pull the system out of the system folder, drop it back in, you are set. Worked for me.

Re: os 9 install

2004-05-27 Thread John A
On May 27, 2004, at 2:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: John A [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to get 9 on disk w/o drivers Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 03:55:29 -0500 CCC is not the only solution...you can just drag a 9 set up directly to your disk. Pull the system out of the system folder,