Hello,
I’m new to old Mac hardware.
I am in need of some advice or direction on a project I'm working on. I have been given a 2 Beige Power Macintosh G3 which only 1 needs to be working. We currently have OSX machines and Class 9 machines but need a machine to run OS8 as well. The machines do not have their original keyboards, mice, HDDs, and has a label from sonnettech.com on it.
At first they wouldn’t power on but I got one up and running by unplugging the ZIP, floppy, CD-ROM and removing all the PCI cards. Once up I tried to install the OS9 grey disc from a 10.2 package but failed with some extension error. Found out that the drive I put in has to be partitioned with less than 8GB which I did by using OSX 10.2 Disk Utility and formatted with OSX Extended. For some reason tried to install 10.2 to see if it would actually work which failed when it starts to load a Video extension because the screen goes black and never returns. I do have an all white Mac OS 8 disc which I’m trying to boot from but doesn’t seem to kick off nor does this burnt disc labeled 8.6 bootable. I also have a burnt disc labeled 8.5 install + 8.6 upgrade on it which also doesn’t kick off. I also get No HFS bootable partition over and over which I’m guessing is cause there is no OS?
Another issue is that since there aren’t any ADB peripherals I cannot seem to navigate or start from cd command. The only time I got USB peripherals to work was with 10.2.
Do I need a floppy to format the drive or boot with cause most of what I’m using is CD-ROM? I’m at a loss here nor does some of the original install manuals seem to help.
BTW can I install 8.0 on a G4 eMac?
Thanks
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I’m new to old Mac hardware.
I am in need of some advice or direction on a project I'm working on. I have been given a 2 Beige Power Macintosh G3 which only 1 needs to be working. We currently have OSX machines and Class 9 machines but need a machine to run OS8 as well. The machines do not have their original keyboards, mice, HDDs, and has a label from sonnettech.com on it.
At first they wouldn’t power on but I got one up and running by unplugging the ZIP, floppy, CD-ROM and removing all the PCI cards. Once up I tried to install the OS9 grey disc from a 10.2 package but failed with some extension error. Found out that the drive I put in has to be partitioned with less than 8GB which I did by using OSX 10.2 Disk Utility and formatted with OSX Extended. For some reason tried to install 10.2 to see if it would actually work which failed when it starts to load a Video extension because the screen goes black and never returns. I do have an all white Mac OS 8 disc which I’m trying to boot from but doesn’t seem to kick off nor does this burnt disc labeled 8.6 bootable. I also have a burnt disc labeled 8.5 install + 8.6 upgrade on it which also doesn’t kick off. I also get No HFS bootable partition over and over which I’m guessing is cause there is no OS?
Another issue is that since there aren’t any ADB peripherals I cannot seem to navigate or start from cd command. The only time I got USB peripherals to work was with 10.2.
Do I need a floppy to format the drive or boot with cause most of what I’m using is CD-ROM? I’m at a loss here nor does some of the original install manuals seem to help.
BTW can I install 8.0 on a G4 eMac?
Thanks
Project Pictures