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Naturally the restore program from 0.3 won’t work, but the 1.0 will under the G4 Cube MacOS 9 CD-ROM install.Īlso I couldn’t figure out the boot parameters so I used Steve Troughton Smith’s BootX loader to get the OS booted. There is not install program for Darwin, rather you need a secondary disk, that is partitioned so the volume manager will pick it up, and then you restore a backup onto the target disk. However Darwin 1.0 uses MacOS 9, which will. There is no nice installer, the CD image actually boots MacOS 8.6 which currently won’t run on Qemu. Interestingly enough a lot of the same weirdness of missing bits I saw on the x86, is also on the PowerPC. Posted in Macintosh, OS X, powerpc | 5 Replies Darwin 0.3 & 1.0 on Qemu Its a fun machine from the era of the introduction of personal 64bit RISC computing to the home user, although too bad the full industry didn’t catch up until later, just as 32bit desktop computing had a few stumbles out of the gates. It was the ending of the PowerPC era, just as 10.6 was the last version to ship with Rosetta. I have the Jaguar DVD set, but Classic mode was removed in 10.5. That makes this the only machine I have capable of running MacOS 9, although in emulation under OS X 10.2. Now it’ll boot up in under 30 seconds from the graphics initialization. I found another Cinema Display in the used hardware market for $25, which even though the display works the screen was damaged at some point and shows scratches on the surface when the display is a solid colour.Īt any rate, the machine was deadly slow to boot, I upgraded the RAM from 256MB to 1.2GB, and replaced the ancient disk for a SAMSUNG SSD PM830 2.5 256GB flash drive. Needless to say, he wasn’t too pleased that his copy of Snow Leopard didn’t work on the machine, and he dumped the G5 for a much quieter MacBook.Īt any rate, it also included an Apple Studio Display. It was the proverbial dream come true, used by an elderly man to keep track of photos in iPhoto, which he used maybe a handful of times a year. In my last trip to the United States, I scored yet another PowerMac G5, a model 7,2 which is one that is capable of running OS X 10.2.7 for the G5. Posted in Apple, MacOS, OS X, powerpc | 3 Replies 20 years of iMacs I don’t know if anyone else has done this, I couldn’t find any real concrete guides for installing OS 9 from OS X. I’ve run Netscape 4, IE 3 & 4, QuickTime 4, and the SIMS version 1 (the OS 8/9 carbon version). Move it to a read-only disk image and have classic boot from that, and then run the OS 9 installer to install itself to whatever target disk you need or want. get it to the point that it’s not happy about being mounted read-write. So to recap, copy the system folder from the CD onto read-write media, and let classic update it. It didn’t interfere with my OS X from booting, although the ‘sane person’ would probably have disk image make a small (1gb) read/write virtual disk, and have the installer install to that. It’s probably just easier to install the minimal OS image.Īfter the install you can eject the CD, unmount the read-only copy and tell the classic to stop and then boot from the new installed copy of OS 9 on the OS X disk. It’ll come back with an error, and you can skip the component. It’s worth noting that just about every optional install fails. Now for the best part, I then kicked off the installer from the CD, and had it install a copy of OS 9, onto the OS X disk. After mounting the read only image, it booted! So I used disk util, and made a new read-only disk image from a directory, and pointed it to a directory that I’d moved the CD’s system folder, desktop to. If it’s read-only it does boot up however. So this got me thinking, back in the Sheepshaver days when trying to boot from an ISO as a disk file, it fails the same way because the image is read/write. The system software on the startup disk only functions on the original media, not if copied to another drive. I copied the System Folder from the CD onto the hard disk, and told the classic applette to boot it, and it updated some system files, and then gave me this fine message: Now the OS 9, is an install disc, not one of the recovery discs, and naturally the aluminum powerbooks don’t boot OS 9, so I’m kind of out of luck for getting Classic working, or so I had thought. I did luckily buy some CD’s from a user on reddit a few months ago, so I had 10.4 install DVD, and an install of 9.2.2 for the emac. I just got another PowerBook, and the disk had been wiped by the prior user, and all it did was boot up to the blinking mac face.
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