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Hello,
I have a problem with a vintage Mac.
A few weeks ago, I bought a Power Mac G4 (466MHz, Digital Audio). I took out the 30GB drive that had come with it and replaced it with a new, 80GB one. Then I did a clean install of Tiger 10.4.6, updated it to 10.4.11 and installed apps. Everything ran fine.
Then I had this crazy idea to try OS 9. I took the original 30GB drive from my drawer, installed it as a second (slave) hard drive. Erased and renamed it under Tiger.
I inserted my OS 9.2.1 CD into the drive (universal CD not bound to a specific Mac) and restarted while holding down the C key. Nothing happened - the computer didn't start to boot from the CD - and Tiger started up as usual. Tried to boot while holding down the Option key and the only bootable drive that appeared was my 80GB Tiger drive. The DVD drive is OK as it can still boot from my Tiger install disc.
Am I missing something? Or could you direct me to a website/forum dealing with Classic Mac OS and old Macs?
I have a problem with a vintage Mac.
A few weeks ago, I bought a Power Mac G4 (466MHz, Digital Audio). I took out the 30GB drive that had come with it and replaced it with a new, 80GB one. Then I did a clean install of Tiger 10.4.6, updated it to 10.4.11 and installed apps. Everything ran fine.
Then I had this crazy idea to try OS 9. I took the original 30GB drive from my drawer, installed it as a second (slave) hard drive. Erased and renamed it under Tiger.
I inserted my OS 9.2.1 CD into the drive (universal CD not bound to a specific Mac) and restarted while holding down the C key. Nothing happened - the computer didn't start to boot from the CD - and Tiger started up as usual. Tried to boot while holding down the Option key and the only bootable drive that appeared was my 80GB Tiger drive. The DVD drive is OK as it can still boot from my Tiger install disc.
Am I missing something? Or could you direct me to a website/forum dealing with Classic Mac OS and old Macs?