I am downloading a DVD iso of OS X 10.4.11 Tiger I figured that might be a little easier. I noticed that on the emac DVDs they had the Mac OS X 10.3.5 on them separately and I think that is why it worked if I tried anything else on the DVD it would tell me it was the incorrect Macintosh.
hmm.. possibly. Let me check somefin'. Ok, according to MacTracker:
SOFTWARE | |
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Original OS | Mac OS 9.1 (Mac OS ROM 6.7.1) |
Later OS | Mac OS 9.1 and Mac OS X 10.0.3 |
Maximum OS | Mac OS X 10.4.11 |
Hardware Test | AHT (Power Mac) 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.6, 1.2.7 |
Bundled Software | Mac OS 9.1; QuickTime, iMovie 2, iTunes, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook Express, Netscape Communicator, FAXstf Pro, and Palm Desktop; Apple Hardware Test CD. Configurations with DVD-R/CD-RW drive include iDVD authoring and encoding software. |
The 10.3.5 sounds like a non-retail disc that you have which contains the eMac strings so it will work on that machine only. Odd its working on the DA. The above gives the listing of all versions that came with the machine. Yeah, to be safe, use Tiger which they state is the max OS - not ! You can try to fake Leopard and that will help also. I run OS 9.2.2 on my Titanium as I am trying to get Classilla to load up most websites and also i USE it for development. 10.0.3 ? Cheetah won't work anymore at all, so yeah.. Tiger would be best bet.. you also have the AHT 1.2.3 I think.