I bought a Mac with three OS:es on the same drive, a SATA drive hooked up with an IDE-adapter (a bunch of missing screws and rather loud PSU fans).
It booted to OSX (Tiger/Leopard is available) and there was also a 9.2.2 drive in the list.
Selecting boot drive, clearing NVRAM/PRAM (whatever it's called), disabling some extensions and removing a memory stick (got faulty ram errors) as well as the WiFi-card I was able to boot it with no errors. Extensions disabled was nVidia drivers and most of the Ati drivers (took a little trial and error).
Worth mentioning is that there was no trouble accessing 9.2.2 from OSX.
After reading up on things I understand the G4 MDD seems to have a special installation CD? I'm not sure what's installed but as it didn't work on first bootup and required that amount of work before doing so, I assume seller hasn't actually used it in 9.2.2 mode.
As there was a lot of trouble getting it to boot I'm a bit concerned that the system won't be stable when finally running the custom software that specifically requires 9.2.2. As far as I know this is the last model that boots 9.2.2 even though I don't have the fasest model (only 867MHz according to the serial no sticker).
So, I guess I have these two to choose from:
www.macintoshrepository.org
This one is only for FW800 connector version, right?
www.macintoshrepository.org
... or is there perhaps an even better suited version?
I tried some universal version of 9.2.2 that I found (Mac_OS_9.2.2_Universal_Install.iso) and attempted to install on some apple marked HDD (80GB WD800) but it wouldn't recognize it for some reason - after that I began working on the one that was delivered (above) instead of trying other drives - I also figured out it didn't take DVD - so CD it was instead.
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.. and then there's this one
It booted to OSX (Tiger/Leopard is available) and there was also a 9.2.2 drive in the list.
Selecting boot drive, clearing NVRAM/PRAM (whatever it's called), disabling some extensions and removing a memory stick (got faulty ram errors) as well as the WiFi-card I was able to boot it with no errors. Extensions disabled was nVidia drivers and most of the Ati drivers (took a little trial and error).
Worth mentioning is that there was no trouble accessing 9.2.2 from OSX.
After reading up on things I understand the G4 MDD seems to have a special installation CD? I'm not sure what's installed but as it didn't work on first bootup and required that amount of work before doing so, I assume seller hasn't actually used it in 9.2.2 mode.
As there was a lot of trouble getting it to boot I'm a bit concerned that the system won't be stable when finally running the custom software that specifically requires 9.2.2. As far as I know this is the last model that boots 9.2.2 even though I don't have the fasest model (only 867MHz according to the serial no sticker).
So, I guess I have these two to choose from:
Mac OS 9.2.2 Universal (2002 edition) - Macintosh Repository
This is a Bootable Universal install CD of Mac OS 9.2.2, US English. Suitable for most G3 & G4 Macintosh models (not all of them). Mac OS CPU...
www.macintoshrepository.org
Mac OS 9.2.2 Install (for unsupported G4s like FW800 MDD G4, eMac G4) with (CPU 5.9, Mac ROM 10.2.1) - Macintosh Repository
This is the MacOS9Lives.com Mac OS 9.2.2 installer CD (the "well tempered" Mac OS) put together in 2013. It's useful for...
www.macintoshrepository.org
... or is there perhaps an even better suited version?
I tried some universal version of 9.2.2 that I found (Mac_OS_9.2.2_Universal_Install.iso) and attempted to install on some apple marked HDD (80GB WD800) but it wouldn't recognize it for some reason - after that I began working on the one that was delivered (above) instead of trying other drives - I also figured out it didn't take DVD - so CD it was instead.
[automerge]1579787447[/automerge]
.. and then there's this one
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