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- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Your Mac's Specs
- 2006 Mac Pro, dual 2.8 GHz mp's, 6 GB Ram, 2 - 1 TD HD - 2016 Macbook Pro, 256 GB/iGB
I was recently blessed with a Gigabit Ethernet dual 450 machine with 1.25 GB of RAM, 30 GB HD, DVD-ROM, ATI 9000 video card, studio display, and OSX 10.4, all for free. I have another similar machine that I radically upgraded some years ago, so I'm familiar with these very elegant machines. I'd like to wrestle with putting 10.5 or even Debian Linux, with which I've also had some experience, on this second G4, but the firmware needs upgrading from 3.3f to 4.28. I found that I need to run the firmware update software from an OS 9 partition because it needs an OS9 system folder to work. So I booted a retail OS 9 CD and ran the installer. What I got was an OS 10.4 install with Classic mode, but trying to run the installer from that mode gives me an error message stating that I don't need the upgrade for anything past 9.1. If I hold down the option key at boot, I get a screen with three icons: curly and straight arrows, and a HD. Clicking on any of these doesn't give me the option to boot 9.2. Do I have to completely reformat and wipe the disk to get *only* a 9.2 system to do the update? Or am I missing something else? Your experience would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.