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I have an iMac g3, and it used to run osx 10.3, but then i thought i'd turn it into an ubuntu machine, which didn't work through many different processes. now i am trying to make it an os 9 machine, and no matter what i do, it wont work. I know for a fact that it has firmware 3 on it, and when i boot to the os 9 cd, and try to install, it says i need to update the firmware. so open the firmware update utility in the 'extras' folder, and when i try to click shutdown, to update the firmware, it says that the volume that the system folder is on, is locked, and i need to restart using an unlocked volume. i have also tried installing os 9 to a usb drive on a different computer, and then copying it over to HD, but that also doesn't work, it won't boot. without the os 9 cd, i get the blinking mac sign, and question mark thing. HELP! i really want this to work!