Bondi with 9.2 + 10.3?

[24bit]

I would like to have Panther and OS9 on my iMac G3 233. It seems Panther is not willing to install on my 10GB pATA,

even if it was initialized with DU from the boot CD and partitioned 6GB and 4GB. However I could install 10.3 on the original 4.3 GB Apple drive.

How should I proceed, to have both OS bootable on the internal 10GB drive, so that I have access to my SCSI drives from OS9?

There seems to be no OSX driver for my Formac SCSI host adapter in the Mezzanine.

Is it promising to "restore" Panther to the 6GB patition via USB adapter and than add OS9 to the 4GB partition?

 

[coius]

Download XPostFacto.

It will help you get it installed.

Under OS 9, it applies firmware patches that make it OS X friendly, as well as modify files (especially driver files) that make OS X versions higher than 10.2 run on it. OS 10.3 stripped out a lot of support files for the beige G3-based systems and XPostFacto patches/adds files to make the system work with it.

 

[24bit]

Thanks for your suggestion, I heard about X Post facto, I´ll take a look of course.

I thought I would not need that, as 10.3 is supposed to work with the Bondi blue without tweaks.

Is it a common issue, the 10.3 installer refusing non Apple drives?

 

[bibilit]

Did you patched the Imac to the new Firmware first ?

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1263?viewlocale=en_US

And yes, non Apple drives can be a problem :

Mac OS X
If you have a hard drive over 8 GB in size, you must partition it or you will not be able to install Mac OS X. If you are creating the partition within OS X, it must be smaller than 7.4 GB as reported by Disk Utility (because sometimes a GB is billion bytes and sometimes it's 1,073,741,824 bytes); we suggest simply setting it at 7 GB to avoid having to redo the whole installation if the partition ends up bigger than specified (it happens). Mac OS X must be completely within the first 8 GB of space on your hard drive or you will not be able to run OS X.

Tray-loading iMacs cannot boot from USB drives (see Apple Knowledge Base Article #58430, USB Info and Benefits of Dual-Channel USB).

Non-Apple upgrades and peripherals (such as unsupported USB devices, replacement drives, and third-party memory) may cause problems when installing or booting into Mac OS X.

Be sure that your iMac's firmware is up to date before you install Mac OS X, and read and follow all of Apple's "Read Before You Install" instructions to increase the likelihood of getting OS X installed and running on the first try.

 

[Forrest]

It's been a few years since I installed OSX on my iMac 233 MHz Rev B Bondi, but I did not need to use XPost Facto. I upgraded the internal hard drive to 13 GB (non-Apple) and partitioned the drive so the 1st partition was just under 8 GB. I installed OS 9.x, upgraded the Firmware and installed OSX 10.3.x

I didn't have any card installed in the Mezzanine slot - that may present a challenge to installing OSX.

 

[24bit]

Thanks fellows,

the firmware is up to date, I upgraded many years ago, but just checked it to be sure.

The Bondi blue is running 10.3 and 9.2 right now fro the 4.3 GB.

Of course the drive is rather full, I´ll make another try with the 10GB partitioned to 6+4 GB.

Do you think its important which OS is installed first?

I had 10.3 first, with the OS9 drivers box checked in DU.

 

[waynestewart]

Since you already have 9 & 10.3 on the currant HD, why not try using Carbon Copy Cloner to copy everything over to the new drive?

 

[24bit]

YES! Why didn´t I think of CCC?

Is there a version for 10.3.9 available?

Edit: Never mind found CCC 2.3, I´ll try right now.

 

[24bit]

Just wanted to report back, that CCC did it!

It moved my 10.3.9 installation to the 6GB partition on my Seagate drive and the thitd party drive is bootable.

The Bondi blue´s USB is painfully slow, but thats the way it is.