Triple boot iMac G4 ?

Question

alex7375 Author

Level 3

695 points

Triple boot iMac G4 ?

Here is my Apple iMac G4 restore.

I opened it up and vacuumed out the dust.

Added more ram for a total of 2gb. which I purchased from OWC.net

Applied NEW thermal paste as the old thermal paste was all dried up.

Spec:

iMac G4

CPU - 1.2ghz. PPC

Display - 17"

Graphics - Nvidia FX 5200

Hard-drive - 80gb.

RAM - 2gb.

Network - 100baseT ethernet

Modem - 56k

FireWire, USB-2.0

Speakers - Harman Kardon

Webcam - Apple iSight with LED light.

OS - Triple boot ( Mac OS tiger/leopard/9.2

Question:

Is it possible to Triple boot ?

Posted on Jun 28, 2023 1:50 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Best reply

Servant of Cats

Level 6

9,939 points

Jun 30, 2023 2:56 AM in response to alex7375

alex7375 wrote:

Where can I download a copy of Sierra for PPC ?

Nowhere. Leopard was the last version of Mac OS X that ran on PowerPC-based Macs.

There were three 17-inch Macs with the distinctive "iLamp" design. Going by MacTracker, yours sounds like the most recent – the iMac (17-inch USB 2.0) introduced in September 2003 and discontinued in July 2004. Looks like it already has the actual maximum amount of RAM (2 GB), as opposed to the official maximum (1 GB).

iMac (USB 2.0) - Technical Specifications

Reply

Answer 2

BDAqua

Level 10

240,827 points

Jun 28, 2023 4:46 AM in response to kaz-k

???

The final version of Apple's Mac OS X that ran on PowerPC chips was 2007's Leopard (version 10.5), released in October 2007. The final version to run applications written for PowerPC chips, using the Rosetta binary translator, was 2009's Snow Leopard (version 10.6).[5] Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) dropped support altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Intel_processors#:~:text=The%20final%20version%20of%20Apple%27s,Snow%20Leopard%20(version%2010.6).

Reply