I wonder whether the HDD has some bad sectors? You could format and zero out the drive before installing - that will take ages and there's no guarantees.
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Can’t update 10.4.7 on my iBook g4
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When you begin the installer you start Disk Utility from the menu and format/erase from there.
Hurray! OS X was installed from dvd and I already updated to 10.4.11. Now to software, games, and retro games like Myst or System Shock.
Guys, can you please also navigate me to a proper guide how to run classic apps on tiger? On previous tiger install I had smth called OS 9 classic environment. But on clean tiger I don’t have it.
I’m in need for a proper guide what to do, to return this support
I already saw different stuff like you need original OS 9 cd or I need to copy system folder from older Mac with OS 9. Maybe there is some strait-forward way like apple all-ready uploaded free installation of classic environment somewhere.
I also saw that usually you’ll have version 9.0 but it’s good to update classics to 9.1 or 9.2…
Like a said earlier, I’m interested to play original games like Myst or System Shock.
I’m in need for a proper guide what to do, to return this support
I already saw different stuff like you need original OS 9 cd or I need to copy system folder from older Mac with OS 9. Maybe there is some strait-forward way like apple all-ready uploaded free installation of classic environment somewhere. I also saw that usually you’ll have version 9.0 but it’s good to update classics to 9.1 or 9.2…
Like a said earlier, I’m interested to play original games like Myst or System Shock.
Mac OS 9.2.2 System Folders for Mac OS X (Classic Environment) - Macintosh Repository
Those are loose Mac OS 9.2.2 folders to ease manually setting up Classic Environment inside Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or earlier. Normally, with your...
www.macintoshrepository.org
I'd normally link to macintoshgarden but can't seem to find it there?