Ryaneric77
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Hi, I'm new here. I've been looking everywhere on how to be able to do this. I want to be able to run OS 8 on my PPC G4 QuickSilver 2002. I stumbled upon this article, just now, written in 2006. http://lowendmac.com/sable/06/0911.html It states that you can somehow get older machines to run newer OS's than officially supported by Apple. What I want to do is basically the opposite. I have a PPC QuickSilver G4 2002 with Mac OS 10.3.9 & Mac OS 9.2.2 on a single partition on the same HD. I also have an empty partition formated as Mac OS Standard (HFS), also on that HD. I was wondering if I would somehow be able to boot up in OS 8 on that empty partition. I installed OS 8 on it by booting up on the OS 9.2.2 partition and installing it to the empty Mac OS Standard (HFS) partition. It appeared to be successful. Though when I tried to boot from it, I got a flashing ? folder and then it booted into 10.3.9, if I remember correctly. The above link had a link within it, here. http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/os8_68030.html which as I already stated, showed basically how do the opposite of what I am trying to accomplish. I was wondering if that could somehow be applied to what I am trying to do. I also own a Performa 630 CD running OS 8.1 and it runs great. From what I can decipher, I will probably need to use that in this process somehow. Right now I'm running on a PPC G5, so there is nothing I need on the G4. So If I had to format the drive it wouldn't be a problem as I have transfered everything over. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me. :beige: