Okay, Google isn't helping me so I'm turning to you guys. I'm trying to set up Classic Mode on my FW 800 G4 MDD running 10.4.11. It doesn't recognize my pre-OS 9.1 install disks, and for OS 9.1 and later it won't let me actually set a folder for the installation (aside from the CD's directory), and since I used CD-Rs to burn OS 9, I can't install it. I also can't actually use the OS 9.1 that the computer is telling me I have installed! What exactly am I doing wrong here, and how do I fix it? I have the Classic Mode panel so that's not the problem.
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Classic Mode Headaches...
- Thread starter EvieSigma
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All very well, but you are saying on the one hand that the computer doesn't recognize the cd, that you can't install 9.1, and that it is installed but that you can't start 9.1 up.
Maybe some clarification is needed.
Maybe some clarification is needed.
Given that OS 9.1 was released in 2001 and the machine you're using is from 2002, I'm guessing that 9.2.2 is absolutely mandatory here.
It may be best if use a 9.2.2 image. I believe macgarden has one referred to as "os9general.dmg" which should either let you copy a full system folder over or should have the appropriate installer.
A machine like the MDD (the late TiBooks were like this as well) would have its OS 9 installer as a PKG file that installs a machine-specific version of OS 9 onto the disk. That should produce a working install for Classic, as well.
As always though, just put 9.2.2 on your blue-and-white and keep OS 9 and OS X separate. They're much faster and more stable and in general OS 9 doesn't benefit a whole lot from the additional speed of an MDD inside classic mode, and it almost never benefits from dual CPUs. My personal experiences with Classic Mode back in the day were not good. It was always a bad time, and so what I often did was dedicated the blue-and-white to OS 9 (or used my 7300) if I needed a lot of OS 9 at a moment, and then used the TiBook for OS X stuff.
It may be best if use a 9.2.2 image. I believe macgarden has one referred to as "os9general.dmg" which should either let you copy a full system folder over or should have the appropriate installer.
A machine like the MDD (the late TiBooks were like this as well) would have its OS 9 installer as a PKG file that installs a machine-specific version of OS 9 onto the disk. That should produce a working install for Classic, as well.
As always though, just put 9.2.2 on your blue-and-white and keep OS 9 and OS X separate. They're much faster and more stable and in general OS 9 doesn't benefit a whole lot from the additional speed of an MDD inside classic mode, and it almost never benefits from dual CPUs. My personal experiences with Classic Mode back in the day were not good. It was always a bad time, and so what I often did was dedicated the blue-and-white to OS 9 (or used my 7300) if I needed a lot of OS 9 at a moment, and then used the TiBook for OS X stuff.
I kinda actually no longer needed Classic Mode an hour or so after I made this thread...I was trying to install an application that kept trying to start Classic Mode, but then I managed to find a newer version of said application for OS X so it ended up not being an issue.
There is an MDD-specific OS 9 build. Granted it won't boot at all on a normally configured FW800 Mac, but when you run the MDD restore disks they actually install Jaguar and then dump a 9.2.2 system folder onto the drive(although the folder is bootable in a FW400 MDD).
I do think the MDD restore disks(along with most of the other late computer-specific OS 9 disks) have been uploaded to the garden, but the OS 9 Lives universal build is often your easiest option.
I do think the MDD restore disks(along with most of the other late computer-specific OS 9 disks) have been uploaded to the garden, but the OS 9 Lives universal build is often your easiest option.
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