Why won't it do it

[95yjman]

I have kind of a noob question, I recently picked up this g3 ibook, its not a clamshell but the white/snow one. It came with Mac os 9.2 on it. Its got a bunch of files that seem to be deleted on it causing some stuff to not work. I have some restore CD's from my iMac g3 dv that are for mac os 9 that I put in it and tried to reboot it holding down the C key but it wouldn't boot off the cd. Will these cd's not work for it since they are for an iMac? Thanks for any help and sorry for such a noob kinda question..

*edit* also tried holding down the option key and couldn't get the cd to show up, just the Mac HD..

 

[DrakkenWar]

Yup Not gonna do it....

Nope, those grey and white disks ares system specific, so it's not gonna cut the mustard. You need a retail 9.2.1 or it could be 9.1 disk. Been years since I last played with OS 9. At any rate this is what you need:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mac-OS9-Ins...perating_Systems_Software&hash=item43b0921d8e

 

[95yjman]

Cool thanks man!

 

[tom vilsack]

95yjman:

i just picked up a ibook g3 500 other day also (mint and $40..battery only with 16 cycles..how could i say no...only has stock 128 built in mem,so will add 512 pc100/133 when i can find some.)...i bought mainly so i could run mac os 9.2.2 (have emac version that will install)...message me if you need help hint hint ;-)

im using it now,running classilla and even have older version of flash...it runs great...so much faster then osx on them....