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os 9.2 on 6360CD, having issues. help please :)

Ncc74656

Well-known member
i am running 9.1, just did a clean install on an IDE hard drive to eliminate variables. using OS 9 helper i try to open the 9.2.1 update for install. it gets maybe a second into the loading bar and tells me "error reading disk image from disk". i downloaded the 9.2.1 update from macintosh repository - its the only version of it i can find.

when i try to go directly to the 9.2.2 update it will read the installer, open the next loading screen and tell me that i need 9.2.1 FIRST; that makes sense.

so, im leaning towards a bad image file but i cant find anywhere else with a different file. the 9.2.2 OS disks do not have an updater on them.

anyone have any thoughts as to what my issue is?

full system spec: 603ev with a 240Mhz G3 L2 cache card
128MB ram
Radeon 128 rage or 7000 or 9200 depending on which one i have in system at any given time.
stock IDE or 256GB crucial SSD
TV tuner
composit A/V input card
DVD rom drive
com slot II 10baseT
 

Ncc74656

Well-known member
i had an idea, ill bet i have a 9.2.1 updater on one of my mac addict CD's. ima try installing from that
 

Cory5412

Daring Pioneer of the Future
Staff member
The trick to doing this is to start with 9.1 and get the 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 updaters together then use OS 9 Helper. If you're doing that process and it's failing, you're probably right, you may need a non-corrupted set of updates.

Some more info is at https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/flash-different-rom-to-my-performa.40823/post-441827

As I mentioned, it may not make that much of a difference.

One more thought: How's that SSD partitioned? Mac OS 9 (and AFAIK only 9, this is a regression introduced that 7/8 don't have and X doesn't have, on most hardware) has trouble booting from partitions above 200 gigs, even though it happily addresses data drives up to 2TB. Try splitting that SSD in half of so, or even just like, 50 for boot and 200 for data.
 

Ncc74656

Well-known member
so, i downloaded a bunch of iso's from macintoshgarden, macintoshrepository, and winworldpc. in the end it was a 9.1 image from winworldpc that i installed with, paired wtih a USA 9.1 update i installed over the existing 9.1 system. then i pulled the 9.2 update off a mac addict cd. it did not work BUT i found that if i extracted the update, then deleted the desktop update folder, then extracted it AGAIN - mac os 9 helper would read it. i thought this was a fluke but it worked 3 times in a row (failing on 1st extract but working on second).
i then installed 9.2.2
still, no joy on the 9200 radeon tho :/
 

Byrd

Well-known member
That’s good, what does the Radeon 9200 do?

You’ve mentioned before you were running a newish model SSD on your Mac - which is probably asking for trouble, do you think this has something to do with the image and file corruption?
 

Ncc74656

Well-known member
I stupidly took that hard drive out and put it in a different system, now I can't get 9.2 to load. Luckily I made this post so I can reference what I did back then.

The 9200 had problems, it did video acceleration and it also gave me some 3D acceleration but not to the level of performance I would expect. I suspect there was a serious limitation of the front side boss on this system.

Radeon 7000 worked equally to the 9200. Both of them struggled with driver installed though. Interestingly enough, just upgrading the RAM alone, gave the integrated video a near 300% boost according to the benchmarking software.

Upgrading the processor gave a further 40% boost on top of that. If I ever get 9.2 on this computer again, I'm going to run more benchmarks with the 7,000 series
 
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