Re: Classic on Ruby Red iMac

2009-11-12 Thread Lawrence David Eden
Jim, I have the CD of 9.0. Held down the C key and booted from the CD. The install attempt failed. I got a message that said I could not install 9 on the volume with 10.4 and to choose Options. The choice there was a Clean install and I don't really know what that entails, so I quit the

Re: Classic on Ruby Red iMac

2009-11-12 Thread Gus
many people in this forum have mentioned loading OS 9.2.2 with netboot from apple. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120243#English They also mention removing the two netboot extensions before booting into classic. If you go to Google and go to this group list and type in a search

Re: Classic on Ruby Red iMac

2009-11-11 Thread Jane, (Portland, OR)
On Nov 10, 5:08 pm, Jim Scott jesco...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:59 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: I have a Ruby Red iMac that i am setting up for a 6 year old. It is G3, 400mhz. I installed a new hard drive and formatted it to 10.4, that's the OS her school runs on

Re: Classic on Ruby Red iMac

2009-11-11 Thread Clark Martin
Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: On Nov 10, 5:08 pm, Jim Scott jesco...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:59 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: I have a Ruby Red iMac that i am setting up for a 6 year old. It is G3, 400mhz. I installed a new hard drive and formatted it to 10.4, that's the

Re: Classic on Ruby Red iMac

2009-11-11 Thread Jim Scott
On Nov 11, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: On Nov 10, 5:08 pm, Jim Scott jesco...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:59 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: I have a Ruby Red iMac that i am setting up for a 6 year old. It is G3, 400mhz. I installed a new hard drive and

Classic on Ruby Red iMac

2009-11-10 Thread janesprando
I have a Ruby Red iMac that i am setting up for a 6 year old. It is G3, 400mhz. I installed a new hard drive and formatted it to 10.4, that's the OS her school runs on their iMacs.) I have also installed several learning games that need Classic. However, whenever I try to open one of these, I

Re: Classic on Ruby Red iMac

2009-11-10 Thread Jim Scott
On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:59 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: I have a Ruby Red iMac that i am setting up for a 6 year old. It is G3, 400mhz. I installed a new hard drive and formatted it to 10.4, that's the OS her school runs on their iMacs.) I have also installed several learning games

Re: Classic on Ruby Red iMac

2009-11-10 Thread Clark Martin
janespra...@comcast.net wrote: I have a Ruby Red iMac that i am setting up for a 6 year old. It is G3, 400mhz. I installed a new hard drive and formatted it to 10.4, that's the OS her school runs on their iMacs.) I have also installed several learning games that need Classic. However,