"Universal" OS 9 CD that works with 867mhz /1Ghz Titanium G4?

[galgot]

Restoration disks for A1025 can be found here :

http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/powerbook-g4-titanium-867mhz1ghz-software-installation-restore-discs

There is also a link to a custom OS9 only restore CD on that page.

I think its the one I used with success...

 

[Gorgonops]

There is also a link to a custom OS9 only restore CD on that page.

I think its the one I used with success...

So, I just finished using that "Custom OS9 Restore" to get the OS loaded, in a sort of roundabout way. (I found it right after my previous post.)

Said "restore" is simply the contents of the hidden disk image that's on the DVD restore images. To avoid wasting another CD-R blank I formatted a USB key with an APM partition map (and OS 9 drivers) HFS Extended and, using the MacBook, dragged the contents of that image onto the USB key. (Along with the "Utilities" folder from the 667-800 CD.) Unfortunately the resulting key wasn't bootable because just opening an OS 9 system folder in the finder under Mojave won't properly bless it (it does look like I *might* have been able to do it via the command line.. maybe, probably not?), but I was able to boot the Ti from the "wrong" disk and drag the USB contents to the hard drive, where it did indeed result in a bootable volume. (It even fires up that annoying setup assistant on the first boot.)

Worth noting, perhaps, is that after touching the USB key under OS 9 it became blessed and is also bootable. It boots slower than lukewarm molasses, given the machine only has USB 1.1, but it does work. I wonder if it would be worth it to anyone to copy these files onto an as-small-as-will-fit USB key partition, make it bootable, and then image that for future use.

 

[CC_333]

Sorry I'm late here, but I actually have an original set of TiBook 867 MHz disks that probably would've been immensely helpful to you had I check in here sooner.

I should probably locate them, and then find a way to copy them, and perhaps post them somewhere, for future reference, as you're probably not the first person caught in this pickle, and you definitely won't be the last.

c

 

[galgot]

My pleasure...

 

[Gorgonops]

Kind of veering just slightly off-topic, has anyone tried booting a late Titanium off of the PCMCIA card slot? I was under the impression this was something that worked on older Powerbooks up until at least the G3 era, but it doesn't seem to work on my 867mhz machine.

(I've had a couple used 2GB ATA Flash cards lying around for months, and since I had the Ti kicking around I decided to erase them with it. Just for fun I dragged the system folder over to one of them after initializing it in Drive Setup and tried booting with the option key down, but it doesn't show up as an option, and checking with the startup disk control panel shows it grayed out.)