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[Urbz]

Hey,

I have an iBook G3 800mhz that runs OS X great but I'd like to play around with OS 9...for nostalgia, if nothing else!

I have an iMac Install CD and a Restore CD with 9.0.4 on it, but that won't work for classic on this iBook, nor then can I boot from it.

So how do I obtain OS 9.1 or later? I'd rather not pay for it... could I somehow upgrade to 9.1 from sheepshaver, even though it can't run 9.1, and then extract the image to my drive?

-Urby

[user2]

Urby3, on Dec 7 2006, 01:36 AM, said:

Hey,

I have an iBook G3 800mhz that runs OS X great but I'd like to play around with OS 9...for nostalgia, if nothing else!

I have an iMac Install CD and a Restore CD with 9.0.4 on it, but that won't work for classic on this iBook, nor then can I boot from it.

So how do I obtain OS 9.1 or later? I'd rather not pay for it... could I somehow upgrade to 9.1 from sheepshaver, even though it can't run 9.1, and then extract the image to my drive?

-Urby

The same way you "obtained" MacOs for Intel.  Demonoid, pirate bay etc.

[Urbz]

I was hoping for a more techie/legal way to do this... oh well.

[LaminarFlow]

If you search around within the resore disk you might be able to find a '.img' file that contains the hard drive image. You can mount that and copy the contents of it to your hard drive. I know my 9.0.4 iMac restore CDs worked this way.

[Urbz]

that .img file doesn't work: the iBook requires 9.1 or later, so this 9.0.4 system folder is of no use to me.
I'm downloading 9.2.2 from piratebay and it's SLOOOW...

[Colonel]

Just a little warning to ya, I'd say about 90% of the OS 9 install disks leaked out there by torrents are some kind of PowerMac or PowerBook G4 restore disk.

[mac-mini]

another warning what you are downloading is probably a restore CD because i only remember 9.1 retail

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[Urbz]

Thanks guys, I can't wait to get it all up and running!
But I have a question:
While the 9.2.2 restore disk downloads, I was wondering if I could do it another way. As I said, I have the 9.0.4 installation and I've installed it to sheepshaver before. I could do it again with a half-hour!
Do any of you think I'd be able to update, and even though Sheepshave won't work with it anymore, copy over the new system folder?

[A Nonny Moose]

colonels, on Dec 7 2006, 06:01 PM, said:

Just a little warning to ya, I'd say about 90% of the OS 9 install disks leaked out there by torrents are some kind of PowerMac or PowerBook G4 restore disk.

OS 9 disks (and for that matter OS 10.1 disks) tend to be rather generic.  I freely switched between an iMac G3 disk and PowerBook G4 disk with no problems.