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Q: Install PPC Panther to external drive on Intel Mac

I have an old iMac G3 333 MHz, 192 MB RAM. No firewire, no DVD. I've upgraded its hard drive to 120GB one, made 2 partitions (one 7,77GB for the system) and successfully installed 10.1 OS. I've replaced the PRAM battery (the clock doesn't reset on reboot) and firmware is up to date.

 

Now I want to upgrade the system to OS X 10.3 Panther (to try to use WiFi adapter which has only OS X 10.3 drivers), but there is some kind of a problem with the installation. The install disks are perfectly read on iMac under 10.1, when I start the install under the current OS, it begins after restart, but after it comes to hard drive consistency check it seems to freeze — it shows only maybe one pixel progress on the progress bar (waited for approximately an hour or so, no change). I've checked the drive with Disk Utility and it's okay. And when I try to boot from CD directly (holding C) it comes to light gray screen with Apple logo and that circle of dashes thing and than freezes.

 

So I thought that solution could be to take the iMac hard drive, connect it to my MacBook Pro (early 2011) as USB external drive and install Panther to it. The connection works fine, I can read/write iMac HD on MacBook Pro, but the installer can't start because it is supposed for PPC computers, while my MacBook Pro is Intel-based of course...

 

Is there a way to install OS X supposed for PPC to the external drive from the Intel-based Mac? Or maybe there are other ways to solve the problem?

Thanks in advance!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.1.x)

Posted on Mar 14, 2016 11:07 AM

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  • by Kostsei,

    Kostsei Kostsei Mar 15, 2016 3:37 PM in response to Kenichi Watanabe
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    Mar 15, 2016 3:37 PM in response to Kenichi Watanabe

    I'll try to find a CD-R at home, didn't use any CD for a pretty long time...

    And one more interesting detail — if I try to boot from CD right after the previous fail it never boots (I may try several times one after another, but it always hang on a white screen with logo), but after a while it works again, like if it needed some time switched off before it could boot again.

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    Kostsei Kostsei Mar 15, 2016 4:45 PM in response to Kenichi Watanabe
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    Mar 15, 2016 4:45 PM in response to Kenichi Watanabe

    Haven't got any CD-R (may be I'd buy one tomorrow), but during the install there is a process of install CD verifying, I've always skip it because it was going very slow and I thought it could hang the iMac, but at my latest tryout I didn't skip it and it went fine, so I suppose the disk is okay, isn't it? Or may be there is some other way to check if the disk has no errors or damages? But once again the CD looks like 999/1000, it has no scratches, maybe a few extra small and barely visible marks from fingers.

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