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OS 9 on Quicksilver?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: May 2005
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High,
I'm totally befuddled. I cannot install OS 9 onto my Quicksilver. The machine will not boot from the installation CD no matter what i do. The "no system folder" icon comes up blinking and then the machine boots into OSX. Holding down the 'C' key doesn't help. Here's the hammer: the machine will boot from a Norton System Works disk. Both the OS9.1 and OS9.2 versions of this disk work. What's going on here? And yes, i've installed the OS9 drivers onto the disk.
Thanks,
JPW
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Why not just copy an existing OS 9 system folder to your QuickSilver and boot that way?
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Big Mac,
Thanks for your response. I tried this and could boot (i copied the system folder from one of the Norton disks). The problem was that i couldn't do an install/upgrade to 0S9.2. The installer gave me a message saying that the software couldn't be installed on my machine.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Sounds like the installer disc you have was meant for another model Mac...
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I tried to install a System 9 folder from a Norton boot CD. Drag, drop into a hard drive and it never, ever worked. It was "blessed" which made the startup even worse. The computer recognized it as a legitimate startup but it inevitably locked up.
You are going to need to install System 9 from an install disk or copy it from a similar model Mac. I installed System 9 on my Silver door G4 from the System Restore CD included in OS X 10.2.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Does anybody remember what the last system that allowed booting into OS9?
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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Originally Posted by Technicolor
Does anybody remember what the last system that allowed booting into OS9?
According to the Mactracker app, it was the mid-summer '03 MDD towers, the spring '03 G3/900 iBooks, and the fall '02 PowerBooks @ 867/1GHZ.......
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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Don't drag System Folders from utility boot discs, nor from installer discs. They are special versions that will not function properly if placed on a hard disk.
What should work is to drag and drop the System Folder from the Mac OS 9 images included with a PowerPC Mac that boots OS X.
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