HELP! Lost and Not Happy :-(

[UltraNEO*]

Hiya Folks, I'm new here!!

Recently I acquired an used but well looked after PowerBook Titanium 867Mhz unfortunately the seller only included Leopard retail installer disks 8-o Posting the seller question results in no answers what so ever! However couldn't be more over the moon!! As I paid little more than a hundred notes for this machine and it's good as new!! Anyway, here's where my problems start :

Now I've been a user of Apple products for years but I seem to be missing something from my collection. To run Classic MacOS9 on this powerbook it's gotta be version 9.2.x or later; however.. the most recent copy I have is 9.0.1 (retail) and this machine simply hates it!! Anyway via a round about way I've managed to install the PowerMac G4 version of 9.2.2 on the PowerBook Ti and managed to get the thing to boot but it's not perfect! Seems there's drivers missing for the built-in graphics card/chip, so it's kind choppy and being new to the Titanium I have no idea what display acceleration extension/plug-in's I need; are they even available?

 

[bizzle]

You can extract a functional 9.2.2 install from the OS9 netboot available on Apple's site. I did run it on my 1ghz Titanium (everything the same as your's, all hardware except slower CPU), but it made it run INCREDIBLY hot, stressed the hard drive out where it actually failed (had 0 bad sectors according to SMART Utility right before I did it) COMPLETELY two hours after I got it running. Maybe a bunch of coincidences, but something was not right. The only other way to get 9.2.2 running is the system specific 9.2.2 disk it came with, but it's hard to find, but fully functional or hack together another 9.2.2 image with the correct ROM, which may be difficult. I have heard of people pulling ROMs from Mac Test Pro images to make things like this work in unsupported OS9 machines.

 

[Bunsen]

the system specific 9.2.2 disk it came with

Why would a retail OS 9 install not work? And what is this OS 9 netboot of which you speak?

 

[LCGuy]

He's referring to the OS 9 Netboot image that Apple has on their website as a download:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120243

 

[protocol7]

He's referring to the OS 9 Netboot image that Apple has on their website as a download:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120243

If you go this route, delete the file "Multi-User Prefs" from the Preferences folder after you copy across the System Folder to avoid having to log in when you boot into OS 9.

 

[Bunsen]

8-o

Downloading as we speak!

But again, why a system specific OS 9 CD rather than a generic, retail version?

 

[equill]

Downloading as we speak! ... But again, why a system specific OS 9 CD rather than a generic, retail version?

The last retail OS 9.2.1 CD that I have is ©2001, and we were invited to download the update to 9.2.2 when that became available. I'm not aware of any retail CD of 9.2.2 at the turn-of-Century, although I have not looked assiduously since then. OS 9 was included in ex-factory installations and system-specific CDs and DVDs for years after 2001, at least until Jan 2004. The retail OS 9.2.1 contains Mac OS ROM v8.4 at best. The update to 9.2.2 had advanced to Mac OS ROM v8.7. eMac system-specific CDs provided v9.2.2 of Mac OS ROM. The MDDs that could boot into OS 9 had Mac OS ROM 10.2.1 (with 48-bit LBA support. Don't nobody search these forums no more?).

Side-by-side with Mac OS ROM's maturation were changes to the three elements of Classic Environment (2) and Classic Compatibility ROM, which in the MDDs' case, had progressed to v2.2.1 and 9.5.0 respectively. What else these little critters enabled/disabled has to be discovered by suck-it-and-see methodology, but I can say that the version of 9.2.2 from the MDD era is as stable as a rock on Macs as far back as my two Beige G4/500MHz and 9600 G4/800MHz, and on my G4/733MHz DA. What is a necessary fiddle is to replace Apple's versions of Radeon (OS 9) software with the (later) versions from ATi. In either case, however, if you are using a Radeon 7000 (PCI or AGP), kill Graphics Accelerator. Kill. Kill.

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[UltraNEO*]

Hmm.. Interesting. When I boot the PowerBook and goto the Apple for it's system stats, I find this system has a boot ROM of 9.0.1, yet I can't boot from a 9.0.1 CD. Why's that?

How I do screen grabs in OS9? I forgotten.

 

[LCGuy]

Taking a screenshot of the entire display is exactly the same in OS 9 as it is in OS X - Command-Shift-3. Command-Shift-4 allows you to take a screenshot of a specific part of the display.

 

[UltraNEO*]

Taking a screenshot of the entire display is exactly the same in OS 9 as it is in OS X - Command-Shift-3. Command-Shift-4 allows you to take a screenshot of a specific part of the display.

Haha!! That's how rusty I am... :

 

[UltraNEO*]

He's referring to the OS 9 Netboot image that Apple has on their website as a download:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120243

Question... How do I use this NetBoot Image?