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Hey all,
I always wanted an iMac G3, ever since I saw the commercials around Y2K. I thought they were just epic, so when I finally got the chance to buy one, I took it. In fact, I got two. One was a G3/600 Graphite, the other is a Light Blue of unknown specs. I tried booting the Light Blue, and it gave me a corrupt boot chime. I tried booting the Graphite, and got a good chime, but the flashing question mark.
Upon investigation, the Graphite had no hard drive or connector cable, but it had 256MB ram, and the Light Blue had two different sticks of 128MB, and all the drives and connectors. Knowing that the Graphite would be the faster of the two, I put the HDD in the Graphite. It booted into someone's OS X 10.2, and after hitting the eject, I found a disc of 10.1 install.
As you might have guessed, these are both slot loaders with Firewire. I was pretty amazed that they worked, but then set about trying to restore it to a better OS. I'd like to use it with an older camera I have for photo and video editing, and a little internet and music storage, so I through I might aim for Tiger 10.4. But someone said that I should try and update my firmware before trying to install Tiger, but that requires OS 9, right?
I went searching and couldn't find for the life of me any discs. I finally got a burned copy from a friend of the 9.2.1 retail. When I tried booting it using the 'c' key, it turned into a black and white question mark, which then turned into a Happy Mac...then froze. Never got past that. I decided finally to just get anything I could, and tried both the original 9 install and the 9.2.1. Eventually, I ran out of CD-Rs, and was left with a single 2000 era CD-RW. I've tried writing every OS 9 install I could find, but it keeps freezing at the Happy Mac.
When I boot into OS X and insert the CD, I see the install apps and all the data files, but when I try to boot it it won't load!
Can anyone detail anything on how to get this iMac to boot these and not freeze? I'd be content with installing 10.1 fresh, but it won't let me erase my hard drive. Any ideas?
I always wanted an iMac G3, ever since I saw the commercials around Y2K. I thought they were just epic, so when I finally got the chance to buy one, I took it. In fact, I got two. One was a G3/600 Graphite, the other is a Light Blue of unknown specs. I tried booting the Light Blue, and it gave me a corrupt boot chime. I tried booting the Graphite, and got a good chime, but the flashing question mark.
Upon investigation, the Graphite had no hard drive or connector cable, but it had 256MB ram, and the Light Blue had two different sticks of 128MB, and all the drives and connectors. Knowing that the Graphite would be the faster of the two, I put the HDD in the Graphite. It booted into someone's OS X 10.2, and after hitting the eject, I found a disc of 10.1 install.
As you might have guessed, these are both slot loaders with Firewire. I was pretty amazed that they worked, but then set about trying to restore it to a better OS. I'd like to use it with an older camera I have for photo and video editing, and a little internet and music storage, so I through I might aim for Tiger 10.4. But someone said that I should try and update my firmware before trying to install Tiger, but that requires OS 9, right?
I went searching and couldn't find for the life of me any discs. I finally got a burned copy from a friend of the 9.2.1 retail. When I tried booting it using the 'c' key, it turned into a black and white question mark, which then turned into a Happy Mac...then froze. Never got past that. I decided finally to just get anything I could, and tried both the original 9 install and the 9.2.1. Eventually, I ran out of CD-Rs, and was left with a single 2000 era CD-RW. I've tried writing every OS 9 install I could find, but it keeps freezing at the Happy Mac.
When I boot into OS X and insert the CD, I see the install apps and all the data files, but when I try to boot it it won't load!
Can anyone detail anything on how to get this iMac to boot these and not freeze? I'd be content with installing 10.1 fresh, but it won't let me erase my hard drive. Any ideas?