Mac G3 Blue and White Tower Restoration Project -- Need assistance installing OS

[cm374787]

Hey fellas,

I bought a B&W at a junk dealer and it works essentially but it was missing HDD and RAM which I have plenty of anyway so I put in some RAM and a 40GB HDD now I just need a system.

I quickly found out that one cannot put an OS on that was older than the original OS when I tried to boot with my OS 7.6 discs

I then went to ebay and bought some OS 8.5 discs cheaply...but then I found I need OS 8.5.1 or above

I had some OS 9 discs in a CD wallet which has vanished as they always do when you need them, so I downloaded an .iso (not illegal because I have the discs!) (OS 9.2.1 same as mine if memory serves) and burnt it on a PC onto a CD-RW.

Needless to say, nothing I have tried has worked

Yes I have an authentic Apple DVD drive in the computer, already know about that part.

Any ideas? Even if you think I've tried it before, I won't feel patronized if you ask even the obvious because I'm at my wits end trying to get this up and running.

Thanks in advance

 

[4JNA]

you need retail disks unless you happen by some miracle to find original grays for that particular system. about the same odds as mega-lotto i would guess.

9.0 or 9.1 will work, as well as 10.0 (yuck) 10.1 (yuck) 10.2 (semi-yuck) and 10.3 (yeah!). make sure the firmware is up to date before trying anything else. best of luck.

edit: as an afterthought, do you know the specs, and if this is a rev 1 or 2? did you put in a scsi hd or ide? (that might help guess the age and rev).

 

[cm374787]

you need retail disks unless you happen by some miracle to find original grays for that particular system. about the same odds as mega-lotto i would guess.

9.0 or 9.1 will work, as well as 10.0 (yuck) 10.1 (yuck) 10.2 (semi-yuck) and 10.3 (yeah!). make sure the firmware is up to date before trying anything else. best of luck.

edit: as an afterthought, do you know the specs, and if this is a rev 1 or 2? did you put in a scsi hd or ide? (that might help guess the age and rev).

Well my original discs are nowhere to be found so I'm buggered as they cost $50AU upwards on ebay unless you're really really really really lucky.

You wouldn't happen to have any discs I could borrow via post just to install an OS would you?

As for the specs, I pretty sure it's a rev 2.

 

[rickvanr]

10.4 will run too. Just boot from the DVD. You can still buy IDE DVD burners and HDs, it might be nice to have a newer drive in there. These computers had the 128GB drive limitation as well.

B&W G3s were simple to over clock too. It's just a few simple jumpers. Easy squeezy

 

[cm374787]

10.4 will run too. Just boot from the DVD. You can still buy IDE DVD burners and HDs, it might be nice to have a newer drive in there. These computers had the 128GB drive limitation as well.

B&W G3s were simple to over clock too. It's just a few simple jumpers. Easy squeezy

I don't have 10.4 unfortunately. Unless you got a copy I can borrow