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It's been a while but I think all Software Update used to offer was an iPod Software update. So none of the DPs would install? My iMac was a summer 2001 model so I couldn't even get the Public Beta installed. 10.0 was as far back as I could X it.

I wasn't too sure about firmware updating from an install CD alright. OS 9 can share the same partition as OS X (and if you install 9.2.2 Tiger will use it for the Classic environment if you wish). The DPs didn't use a System Folder for Classic. Instead they booted a disk image.

You'd probably be fine with a 2GB partition. Like you say, there's not much you can run on them. I had them on a B&W with a 10GB disk as I wasn't using it for anything else.

Yeah I had similar feelings when replacing the hard disk in my Indigo iMac. When I heard the crack sound after separating the bottom cover I was sure I'd snapped the tabs, but they were fine. You won't be able to get Rhapsody on that iMac though. The hardware support isn't there (the Rhapsody...

I got a bunch of old MacFormat and MacUser mags a while back too. And I still have all my Amiga ones that I bought when I had my A500 and A1200. You're right about the prices! Crazy stuff.

Sorry to hear about this. Just when we thought the story couldn't get any stranger...

Very nice!

The best disc is probably the eMac one trag posted the link to previously. 9.2.2, ROM 10.1.1, ATI and nVidia drivers (3.5.2 for the latter). Unless you can get the actual restore disc set for a June 2003 MDD.

Hmm the Mac OS ROM is only 9.6.1. I must have been confusing it with the eMac disc as I could have sworn it was 10.2.x. Maybe drop in a newer one.

The Netboot image I mentioned on the previous page has 3.5.x nvidia drivers. You would probably have had the system up and running in one go if you'd used that. But then you'd have missed out on the journey ;)

The earliest model boots 9.2.2 and 10.1.2. The latest doesn't boot 9 at all. http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=PowerMac4,2

Just go slow and don't force anything. I used a plastic card as a wedge to split the bottom chassis from the casing. I think the service manual pointed out the positions for tabs. If it's anything like the Summer 2001 one I opened it'll creak like crazy but I managed it without snapping anything.

As you have a running OS X system, you can try the NetBoot for OS9 image from Apple. It contains 9.2.2 System Folders in a few languages. You can use Pacifist to extract the NetBoot HD.img from the NetBoot.pkg file. Mount the disk image, copy the System Folder to your hard disk and remove the...

Network installing from images is definitely the way to go. Even if it's just a localtalk connection, it still saves wear-and-tear and all that disk swapping.

Great pics Daniel. It's always interesting to see localised machines. On the Gaelic front, I've only ever seen one localised version of Mac OS. It was 7.0.1. It installed as Irish but also had support for Welsh and I think Scottish as well. Had it on my Classic II for the novelty factor (and to...

I had a couple of A/UX installs on zip disks here when I was playing with my SE/30. I don't remember them auto-ejecting on shutdown. It may be a driver setting or it may not work if the zip disks are formatted using HD SC Setup as they'll be seen by the ROM as hard disks rather than removable...

Make sure the firmware is updated. I got the same error on my Gigabit Ethernet when I tried Leopard. Updating to the latest firmware got it working.

I looked into it briefly a few years ago as a possible upgrade for my G3 iBook. Eventually I decided I probably wouldn't get much use out of it (and then a little while later got my MacBook). I don't know if the situation has changed since, but back then there was barely a handful of IDE SSDs...

I don't think so. It came with the G3 and I guess had been running fine with it for years. I don't have any other cards installed that would be putting any strain on the PSU. Without the battery it's worked fine, so I'm assuming the battery had enough juice to keep the time, but not enough to...

The file doesn't appear to be broken here. I could open the readme and control panel fine. Give it another try. Alternatively, if you feed the download links from here into here you'll be able to download 1.7.1 and 1.8.