Jaguar on G3 400 Slot loader

[Arcus]

Ok, I am hoping this is a simple fix but for the life of me I cant find help.

Got a Bondi 400mhz G3 Slot loader for free and I am trying to throw Panther on it.
It tells me that I need to update the firmware. Hmm ok . I did find the firmware updater on my Jaguar disk but I says I need 9.1 or higher. I of course have 9.0...Grrr..

Anywho, I found this area of Apples site :
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58174#iMac851

but it doenst show anything for my model that makes any sense. The profiler shows OS Rom 4.6.1
Finder is 9.0
System is 9.0.4

Any clues as to what to do next?

 

[jaw04005]

Maybe I'm missing something, but why don't you just update to 9.1? It's a free update from 9.x at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75103.

 

[Lord Blackadder]

When I installed Panther on my 266MHz iMac I was running OS 9.0.4, so I had the same problem.

Download the 9.1 update from Apple (you might want to do the 9.2 updates while you're at it). Then install the firmware update. Then (finally) you can go ahead and install OS X.

 

[jaw04005]

By the way, the 400Mhz iMac DV model is the model that if you tried to install Panther without the firmware update, it would zap your video memory and you had to physically open the machine and rewire the external video out.

http://www.capecodgraphics.com/imac_firmware.htm

Be very careful! Good luck.