Installing Classic Mode from a disc image?

[Mansen]

I just got my hands on an old iMac G3 to play a bunch of games from my childhood - It came pre-installed with Tiger, but not Classic Mode.

I've got the Tiger discs (maintenance one too I think) and an old image of 9.2.2 (or was it 9.2.1?) on the harddrive.

I've tried finding a guide on Google, but it's a maze of bad information and dead links to apple. I've tried copying the system folder directly from the mounted OS9 image - but when it starts Classic it throws an error about not working because I didn't install, but copied the folder.

As far as I can tell, I'm supposed to boot the OS9 disc and install it on top of the Tiger partition to make Classic boot properly? I don't have a disc burner drive handy (or any blank media for that matter), so I was wondering if it would be possible to boot it from the .iso image directly, or through a USB stick?

This is such old and specific hardware that I am really lost - Windows seems so much simpler compared (ironic isn't it)

 

[jrsx]

If you have the gray Tiger disks, Classic Support is on the second disk. Just put it in, and click on the "Install Mac OS 9 for Classic Support" installer. It won't ruin any of your Tiger settings, but it will allow you to run most classic games from within OS X.

 

[Mansen]

I've got the DVD version - No "Install Classic Mode" there or anything. Not on the 4 Disc CD version I managed to find on the web either.

Is it just "Disc 2" of some release, or is it a special disc of some kind, I'm looking for?

 

[jrsx]

I've got the DVD version - No "Install Classic Mode" there or anything. Not on the 4 Disc CD version I managed to find on the web either.

Is it just "Disc 2" of some release, or is it a special disc of some kind, I'm looking for?

They would be model specific. They look like this:

It would probably be the last CD, but try all of them.

 

[Mansen]

Ah. No - I'm afraid I don't have a model specific disc like that.

The guy who sold it only had a generic Retail DVD disc along with it - The 4CD's are just disc images I downloaded from the Macintoshgarden following your mention of a "disc 2".

Tried putting my image of OS9 onto a thumbdrive through Disk Utility, but that didn't pan out either. It would boot from it, but throw a "missing diskette" error a second later.

It's really bugging me - The OS9 drivers are installed obviously since it DOES boot up Classic Mode, but I need the RIGHT System Folder on the drive to actually boot it up properly. :/

 

[jrsx]

Ah. No - I'm afraid I don't have a model specific disc like that.

The guy who sold it only had a generic Retail DVD disc along with it - The 4CD's are just disc images I downloaded from the Macintoshgarden following your mention of a "disc 2".

Tried putting my image of OS9 onto a thumbdrive through Disk Utility, but that didn't pan out either. It would boot from it, but throw a "missing diskette" error a second later.

It's really bugging me - The OS9 drivers are installed obviously since it DOES boot up Classic Mode, but I need the RIGHT System Folder on the drive to actually boot it up properly. :/

I may be a bit confused - Are you trying to run Classic mode from within Tiger, or natively boot OS 9?

 

[Mansen]

Classic Mode from within OSX, of course (as is in the thread title at that)

Classic Mode is "booted" up from within Tiger when you start it up - Which is what I am referring to.

Think I found a System Folder of 9.2.2 that will work - We'll have to wait and see while it unpacks everything slowly.

 

[jrsx]

OK, sorry.
Verify that the disk image is 9.2.2, and not just regular OS 9.2 or earlier. I think it has to be fully updated to boot from within OS X.