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May 30, 2016 5:08 PM in response to flowerstby BDAqua,How exactly did you create the bootable Disc?
What about the Hard Drive & any Jumper settings?
What size is the HDD?
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May 31, 2016 9:56 AM in response to flowerstby Allan Jones,Historically, burned bootable disks have worked quite poorly for installing the OS on those old machines. Can you find a retail install disk?
Also, if the optical drive has been replaced with a non-Apple drive, therein could lie the problem. Not all internal replacement optical drives compatible with the Beige G3 were Mac-bootable.
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May 31, 2016 1:39 PM in response to BDAquaby flowerst,I used a Mac OS 9 ISO file and burned it to a CD using PowerISO. The hard drive has been formatted to Mac OS Extended, although I think it would have to be reformatted in Mac OS 9. The hard drive is set to master because I recall reading somewhere that these machines could only boot off a hard drive set to master. HD capacity is 40GB.
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May 31, 2016 1:32 PM in response to Allan Jonesby flowerst,The drive is definitely an Apple one, although it may not be the original that came with it. I've looked for a legitimate install disk but I don't really want to shell out 30+ dollars for a vintage OS, so I thought I would try to make a disc myself first.
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May 31, 2016 7:47 PM in response to flowerstby Jeff,The hard drive may have an Apple label, but one with a 40 GB capacity didn't ship in any of the G3 models. If the drive were formatted with a G3-supported version of OS X's Disk Utility, there was an option ("Include OS 9 Drivers") that had to be checked for the drive to be recognized in OS 9.x. As for the "Mac OS 9 ISO file" that you used, under what Mac OS version did you run "PowerISO" to create a bootable disk?
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Jun 1, 2016 2:14 PM in response to Jeffby flowerst,Sorry, meant 4GB, not 40. I'm not sure if the drive is formatted properly as the hard drive is completely wiped and I don't know the history of it. I used OS X Lion to make the disk.
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Jun 9, 2016 9:44 PM in response to flowerstby Glen Doggett,Since you were using a newer Intel Mac to format the drive, I think it will default to using GUID, but that won't be bootable on a PowerPC Mac, you should use the Apple Partition Map option. I actually don't even know if you can install OS 9 drivers with that more modern version of Disc Utility anyway. Ideally, you would first boot from the OS 9 CD and then format the disc using the drive setup utility on that OS 9 CD before you run the installer program. (if you can get the CD to boot first that is)
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Jun 11, 2016 8:32 AM in response to flowerstby ziggy29,If you used Lion to partition and initialize the discs, you won't be able to choose to install OS 9 disk drivers on those volumes, and you won't be able to boot OS 9 from those volumes. I believe Disk Utility only provides that option up through and including Tiger (OS X 10.4). This means you would need to initialize these volumes under OS 9 (such as a install CD) or from a Mac OS X prior to Leopard (you need 10.4 or lower).
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Jun 12, 2016 12:16 AM in response to flowerstby Jan Hedlund,If you had, or could borrow, another pre-1998 Macintosh computer with a built-in floppy drive for 1.44 MB, it would per se be possible to create a bootable Disk Tools PPC (http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English -North_American/Macintosh/System/Mac_OS_8.1_Update/Disk_Tools_PPC.img.bin) floppy. The other computer needs Disk Copy 6.3.3 (Disk Copy 6.3.3: Document and Software). The floppy disk should be able to at least test the beige Power Macintosh G3 and to format a hard disk. One may even want to try to drag-copy the system folder of a tools floppy to a formatted but empty hard disk, in order to get a minimal temporary system. It is also possible to modify a tools floppy to hold a somewhat more modern version of Drive Setup (such as Drive Setup 1.7.3 Document and Software).
However, as has been indicated earlier, an appropriate original retail system CD would be required for a Mac OS 9 installation.