want o install os 10.4 and os 9 on the clam. need to know how to do this. i've partitioned it with 2 partitions, installed os 10.4 on one, now need to know how to install os 9. tried starting up with os 9 disk but. no such luck. what am i doing wrong and what do i need to do next? want to use some old programs in os 9. Thanks
iBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Graphite clamshell
There are two different models of Graphite clamshell iBooks.
Which of these two is it?
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ibook/stats/ibook_se.html
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ibook/stats/ibook_se_466.html
What is the hard drive capacity?
Do you have the original system CDs that came with the iBook when it was new?
Which OS 9 disc do you have?
466 mhz, 576m ram not original disks. just os 9 and os x disks and 30gig hard drive
What does the OS 9 disc say on it (as far as version is concerned)? It's a tricky thing to install it without the original system CDs.
Hope the firmware was updated before you installed OS X?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1395?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
the os 9 disk was a copy i made for a backup years ago. i already installed os x with x code 2 if that helps. do i need to download firmware update? what i did was make two partions, one for os x and one for os 9. already installed os x.
When the later iBook G3s came out with OS X and OS 9 both installed on their hard drives, the two installations resided on the same partition.
So, you don't have the original OS 9 disc to know exactly which version it is?
Here is the PDF on installing OS 9:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/MACOS9_Installing.pdf
If that doesn't help, I would suggest posting in the OS 9 Discussions, maybe:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/classic_mac_os?categoryID=99
All good advice from Ronda.
When you mention "tried starting up with os 9 disk but. no such luck", did the OS 9 disk boot? As it was a copy, CD's from that era can fade, original CD's are pressed and do not fade.
If the OS 9 CD boots, can you see the partition you created for OS 9? If not, you might not have ticked the OS 9 box when initialising and partitioning from OS X.
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