eMAC OS 9.2 operating system

You need the original Disks for a Native boot for the PowerMac M8570

like Don Archibald says and I agree. If you have another way to boot OS 9

Natively I will listen.

Really what I am talking about here are eMac.

I am looking for the original eMac 1.0 ghz disks that allow the first version of the eMac 1.0ghz

to book natively in OS 9 and OSX. NOT CLASSIC 9 DUAL BOOTING INTO OSX

Don Archibald

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A:

Yes, in order to install OS 9.2.2 as a bootable OS you will need the full original disk set for that model.

As I recall, that model came with a multi-disk set, CDs or DVDs.

You can look on sites like Ebay for such, but be sure to get exactly what you need.

Another place to look for an original disk set is at an Apple User Group - most large cities and universities have one.

Apple - User Groups

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You can install OS X on it using a retail version for OS X 10.3 or later.

And, if using OS 9 as Classic is suitable, you can then copy a working (bootable) OS 9.2.x install from another Mac (not from a CD) and it should work fine as Classic (but not as a bootable OS).

The earlier eMACs like 700 mhz and 800 mhz may work with the disks you suggest.

9.2.1. I have owned those.

However first you need the special eMAC OSX OSX 10.2.1 or 10.3.4

disks that have the internal monitor driver of the eMAC.

Then you can latter upgrade to OSX 10.4.11.

The 9.2.1 disks do not allow native booting for the latter model

eMAC 1 Ghz or the 1.25 Ghz.

You need to use the special eMAC install disks

which start with 10.2.1 or 10.3.4. Then there are 5 eMac OS9 disks

You can supposedly use the terminal to extract the core OS9 files

to boot natively in OS9

In order for the Power Mac G4 MDD 400 firewire to boot Natively in OS9,

you need the Power Mac G4 disks with the OSX and the special OS9 disk (4 of them)

691-4078-A

Art

What i am talking about right now are a the eMacs

Specifically

eMac 700 mhz which I installed OSX and the OS 9 from the original Disks

eMac 800 mhz several times from the same eMac Disks the 700 Mhz use.

They both boot natively.

The eMac 1.0 Combo drive is suppose to boot Natively

The eMac 1.25ghz does not boot natively only Classic 9.

When you say dual boot are you talking about booting OSX and Classic 9?

or booting directly into OS 9?

Art

and of course there are two PowerMac G4 M8570 1.25ghz

Power Mac G4 1.25 Ghz M8570

The firewire 400 model which can boot Natively in OS 9 and also OSX up to 10.4.11

and the firewire 400 and 800 which can only boot in the Classic 9 and OSX up to 10.4.11.

Art

of course there is an

M8570 867mhz

M8570 1.0 ghz

M8570 1.25 Ghz

and that last one

M8570 1.42 ghz

The disk you are referring to is an update disk.

NEW MAC OS 9.2.1 UPDATE CD FOR iMAC eMAC G3 G4 iBOOK POWER BOOK OS 1Z691-3283-A

Now, I have had that original disk 9.0, 9.1, 9.2,9.2.1 but I have never been able to do a Native OS 9 boot with this disk with a model 8570.

Maybe on a quicksilver or earlier model.

I am willing to listen though.

I know what Native OS 9 and Classic OS 9 booting is.

However, on a PowerMac MDD model M8570 the only way to create a Natively bootable OS 9

system is to use the original disks that came with the computer. That Archibald guy talked about

this too in addition to Apple Service.

Your computer probably had the original system disks installed on the PowerMac G4 MDD M8570

Then you installed some version of OS9, which can work.

I used an extraction of OS9 from the original disks. There are talks about this on vintage macs.

I did an extraction from the original OS9 from the terminal worked a few times.

Sorry you are so frustrated.

Art

This is the correct explanation on how to install OS9 natively and OSX.

You Need the original disks!!

A dual 1.25ghz is going to be a Mirrored Drive Door model(MDD). The MDD models WITHOUT Firewire 800 can run OS 9 natively, with the caveat that there is a special OS 9.2.2 build for them. Aside from platform support, the standard Radeon 9000 video card will give issues in particular if the drivers are not installed.

If you want to install OS 9, you need to either track down a set of original restore disks(you have to run the complete set, which installs OS X 10.2 and then dumps in the correct system folder) or install the Mac OS 9 Lives Universal Installer. The latter can be found on Macintosh Garden, and I think the the former(a set of four or five disks from memory) is on there as well.

Well I started with a Mac Plus.

Art

However you and I started is nice.

I go back further too.

However, question.

1.) do you know the difference between a native boot in OS9 from startup.

2.) The dual boot Classic 9 and OSX.

Art