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Aug 26, 2005, 10:50 AM
 
just tested the video capturte on the 8600 and it works suprisingly well -a lot better tha the MyTV device I have

I tried updating OS8 to OS9 but it said this installer will not run on this macintosh -or words to that effect

is it possible to update this old machine to OS9?

any ideas?

rich
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Aug 26, 2005, 11:02 AM
 
Which version of 9? Pre G3s will only run up to 9.1

The only way to run 9.2 is to do an install of 9.1, then use OS 9 Helper from OS 9 Forever to install the 9.2.x updates.
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Aug 28, 2005, 01:37 PM
 
You need the full retail version of OS9. The disk you have isn't the full version.

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