Q: iMac G3 new hard drive
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Mar 23, 2013 9:10 PMby Jeff,"The jumper is set to Master (same as the original drive) and the 'cuda was formatted in my G4 to Apple Partition Map using Disk Utility."
The drive needs to be reformatted as a Mac OS Extended (HFS+) volume (or volumes, if partitioning is desired) and the "Install Mac OS 9 Drivers" option must be checked. This is necessary, if the disk is a pre-OS X boot disk. Unfortunately, this Disk Utility option isn't available when the hard drive is installed in a computer that can't boot into OS 9 - such as your G4. If you have access to another, slightly older Mac, it would be easier to accomplish this. Without the OS 9 drivers, the hard drive won't be recognized in the iMac at startup.
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Mar 23, 2013 9:22 PMby Jeff,HelpfulThis option doesn't appear or is grayed out when you're formatting the drive in a Mac that can't boot into OS 9, because - for that computer - there is no need for OS 9 drivers. Given the small amount of disk space used for it, I'm surprised that the programmers didn't include that option anyway, in case the drive is being formatted for use in a different computer.
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Mar 24, 2013 12:39 PMby rccharles,The tray loading iMac requires the boot partition to be within 8gig. Since there are hidden partition before the first visible partition, people recommend that you make the first visible partition 7.5 gig to 7.9gig. The machines support upto a 128gig Parallel ATA drive.
I've read of folks who successfully ran Tiger on the tray loading iMac. You do need to install on someother machine & move the disk over.
You got enough memory in this machine?
I'd think tiger would boot without the 9.x drivers.
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Is your old iMac hd working?
I used unix dd command to copy over partition image to a larger partition. Run disk utility to fix up any change in partition size table.
Not sure of procedure for more than one partition. I'd copy over entire disk. See if this works. I'd use Tiger command line tools to enlarge partition. Bet you didn't know about these tools.
Let me know if interested in this approach for more details.
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When tired of all this, buy a copy of 9.x on ebay.
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Mar 24, 2013 8:37 PMby rockstar-plus,I have split the iMac's harddrive into a 7GB partition with OS9, and a 31GB partition that is blank.
I would put Tiger on it by installing on my G4, but unfortunately the iMac has only 32MB RAM (had 64, but one of the DIMMs died for some odd reason, out of the blue?) I would get more RAM, but because it is not my computer, It's not my problem to get more RAM (I honestly think the machine isn't worth new RAM, obviously my friend does, since he wants to keep it until it becones a classic, like a 128K or an Apple ii) so I can't install OS X unless he gets a DIMM for me to put in it.
I'm not going to do this, because a) I'm not sure if it would work, and b) my friend is bringing his eMac for me to format the drive on, since it IS old enough to run OS9 (this should solve my issue). Plus, I'm not very good with command line tools (Xcode is an exception)
I would get OS9 on a CD, but unfortunately eBay isn't really used in New Zealand. We have an alternative called Trade Me, which is nice, but doesn't have a lot of the rare or old stuff.
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Mar 25, 2013 9:43 AMby rccharles,I have split the iMac's harddrive into a 7GB partition with OS9, and a 31GB partition that is blank.
If you want to run X on the machine, you need to rethink this. The real rules is all the files that are needed in early boot must be in the 8gig limit. I have not seen a write up on what the files are or how to move them to the 8gig limit.
You can run X and classic in the same partition. set the fist visible partition to 7.8 gig. install 9 in it. Next install x on it. use system preferences to pick which boots.
You can get tiger run in about 3gig you need a gig free at the absolute minimum. the imac 333 will support 512 meg. Larger chips came out after Apple shipped the machine.
Format the rest of the disk. Use SymbolicLinker to move user folders and what you can to the larger partition.
install SymbolicLinker. SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin that, once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder.</p>
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Mar 25, 2013 8:07 PMby rockstar-plus,I don't want to run X on this system at the moment, so that isn't an issue for me.
If you read the first post, you will know I have a 40GB drive, so no issues on space.
Also, Bondis weren't 333MHz (thats a Rev.D 5 flavours model). It's 233MHz.
The link mechanism isn't needed, as the small partition will be plenty enough to store user folders (I think my friend is keeping it more as a museum piece than a functional computer, so it won't have much on it.
