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Help. I'm trying to install Panther

ethanhodges said:
Do I need to partition the drive because it's a tray loading iMac?
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I had to check this to make sure as my slot-loading iMac doesn't have this limitation.

If you have a hard drive over 8 GB in size, you must partition it, and the partition containing OS X must be completely within the first 8 GB of space or you will not be able to run OS X. (If you are creating the partition within OS X, it must be 7.45 GB or smaller as reported by Disk Utility, because sometimes a GB is billion bytes and sometimes it's 1,073,741,824 bytes.)
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ethanhodges said:
The drive that's in the computer now has a 7gb partition for Panther
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If you continue with 7GB that should be fine.
 
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Could I use PC100 ram? I found some on Amazon. Link here
 
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Thanks! Is there an easy to follow tutorial on how to put the DVD iso on the ssd drive. I tried to do a restore from disk utility but it gave me an error.
 
ethanhodges said:
Thanks! Is there an easy to follow tutorial on how to put the DVD iso on the ssd drive. I tried to do a restore from disk utility but it gave me an error.
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The steps below don't work for you? I've set up Tiger on several PPC Macs this way.

  1. Mount the Tiger DVD.
  2. Plug in the USB stick.
  3. In Disk Utility, click onto the USB stick.
  4. Go to Edit and chose Restore.
  5. As shown in the screenshot, Disk Utility will then ask you to choose which volume you want to use as the source.
  6. Select the Tiger DVD and click on Restore and that's it. In a while you'll have a bootable OS X USB installer.
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Which version of macOS are you attempting to do this on?
 
ethanhodges said:
Unfortunately I have no idea how to do this
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You would need a firmware updater. I don't think any were made for that iMac that added USB booting. One would have to build their own firmware updater with the Open Firmware code for USB booting taken from newer Macs. We do have access to all the code and we do know how to make a new firmware and we have emulators to test firmwares. It would be a big project though since it hasn't been done before. Some tools need to be created or updated to do the work.

You can boot into Open Firmware to see what firmware version/date/time you have.
 
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I'm running Sequoia on my mac mini. This is the error I get.

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Do I need to burn a dvd and then install it to the usb ssd?
 
ethanhodges said:
I'm running Sequoia on my mac mini. This is the error I get.
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The functionality of Disk Utility has declined in latter years. It would likely have worked had you used the iBook with its significantly older version. Anyway, it doesn't matter now that we've got the confirmation that your iMac cannot boot from USB.

ethanhodges said:
Do I need to burn a dvd and then install it to the usb ssd?
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Yes. This appears to be the best solution. Burn the DVD and run the installer on the iBook - not the Intel Mac Mini.
 
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Well it's looking like I will be stuck with Panther. The optical drive in my ibook doesn't work and the external dvd drive is not booting to the dvd. I can see the dvd on my ibook and when I click the installer it wants to restart
 
ethanhodges said:
Well it's looking like I will be stuck with Panther. The optical drive in my ibook doesn't work and the external dvd drive is not booting to the dvd. I can see the dvd on my ibook and when I click the installer it wants to restart
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Which program did you use to burn the Tiger DVD?

Have you been able to connect the SSD/HDD to the iBook? If so, select the drive as the target destination, let the Tiger installer restart and see what happens.
 
I used Toast 17 to burn the dvd. I was able to connect the SSD to the ibook. The problem is when the installer restarts the ibook it just goes to the desktop. I've tried holding the option key and also tried the c key while booting and it still goes to the desktop
 
I was able to boot to the dvd. I followed a youtube video. The problem I'm having now it that it won't install on the ssd partition.

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What will you use it for? I have. 2008 iMac on snow leopard which was my first Mac. I love the look of the old os but I can’t go online with it as all certificates have expired for web use which is a shame
 
I was able to get Panther back on it. I tried xpostfacto with a tiger cd and it's giving me a disk read error. Now I can't get out of the xpostfacto to go back to Panther. Help!
 
I would get as much RAM as you can. OS X was super memory hungry back in those earlier days. I remember OS X never really running as smooth as I expected it to be till I had gone up to 512mb of ram.
 
wonderings said:
I would get as much RAM as you can. OS X was super memory hungry back in those earlier days. I remember OS X never really running as smooth as I expected it to be till I had gone up to 512mb of ram.
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I'm going to get more ram for it before I open it up to swap drives
 
Get as much RAM as you can.

My PowerMac G5 DP 2.3 GHz arrived in 2006 equipped with a paltry 512MB of RAM. Tiger was slow... VERY slow.

I ordered another 2GB of RAM and after I installed it, Tiger was suddenly fast... very fast.

So... get as much RAM as you can. I am running a G4 Cube with 1.5 GB of RAM, and it performs well, so at least 1.5 GB seems like a good target minimum amount. RAM is oxygen to these older machines... let 'em breath!
 
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