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9 on a Quadra?

Quadraman

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Someone here a while ago made a post in an unrelated thread about having 9 running on a PPC upgraded Quadra and then disappeared. I have seen articles about getting 8.5 and 8.6 running on a Quadra, but never about installing 9. Has anyone managed to get 9 running on a PPC upgraded Quadra and how did you do it?

 
I can imagine it would be doable by installing Wish I Were, and changing the Getstalt ID to that of a similar PowerMac. (For example, LC475/Quadra 605 and 610 series Macs use Power Mac 6100, 650 series Macs use PM7100, Q800s use PM8100, 900's and 950's use WGS 9150)

 
I'm running 8.6 on my PPC Quadra 650.

My experiences;

Using a utility to change the gestalt id of your mac will get it to install, but it will not boot without doing some resedit hacking of the system file.

 
I do run Mac OS 8.6 on my Q650 but the above link says It is possible to run 9.1 which I could not do so far. I can accept 9.0.4 though.

 
i had 9.1 on my PPC650quadra.

it runs a bit unstable. only succesfully boots one out of two times ;)

i have 8.6 on there and its rock solid. (if a bit slow but thats ok)

 
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