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2.5 ghz G5 and OS 9 System Installed
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I just received a 2.5 ghz in the mail (and i love it)!
I transfered all my programs and files from my old computer to the new G5 using the firewire connection program that starts on the new machines.
My OS 9 folder was copied onto the G5 and the OS 9 system preference was copied too.
Is OS9 suppose to run on these new G5's?
Any perceivable danger in doing so?
I thought the new computers didn't support OS 9, but maybe i was wrong.
Anyone have experience with this?
-Green Leaf
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The last set of G4 towers and all of the G5s do not support OS 9 booting. If you found some way to get it to work, I'm sure a lot of people would be interested!
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Be happy.
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You need the OS9 stuff for when you run classic.
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PowerMac G4 Gigabit 1.2GHz, 896MB, 2x 80GB WD SE, Pioneer 107, Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB
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Originally posted by littlegreenspud:
You need the OS9 stuff for when you run classic.
Right. New Macs do not support OS 9 booting, but they can still run OS 9 as the "Classic" environment inside of OS X. If you launch an OS 9 application it will load Classic, and your old applications will run alongside your OS X applications.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Actually one special version of OS9 still does run on all Macs, including the latest G5s �_the Apple Hardware Test is based on OS9 technology  
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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Originally posted by OreoCookie:
Actually one special version of OS9 still does run on all Macs, including the latest G5s �_the Apple Hardware Test is based on OS9 technology
GASP! Lets HaX0r it and rebuild OS 9 for the G5xor...
Haha actually you know, it'd be cool if they open sourced OS 9
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Originally posted by OreoCookie:
Actually one special version of OS9 still does run on all Macs, including the latest G5s �_the Apple Hardware Test is based on OS9 technology
I wonder when they're going to change that... it seems like a waste of development effort to continue to support the latest systems with both OS9 (even modified) and OSX.
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Originally posted by OreoCookie:
Actually one special version of OS9 still does run on all Macs, including the latest G5s �_the Apple Hardware Test is based on OS9 technology
I'm curious where you are getting this information, as Apple Service Diagnostics is a beefed up version of the Apple Hardware Test, and it looks like a complicated open firmware script to me--since seriously fubar'ed hardware drops me back into an open firmware prompt. Also, these discs will start running even on machines that they don't support--as long as they support a roughly similar version of open firmware.
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ACSA 10.4/10.3, ACTC 10.3, ACHDS 10.3
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Originally posted by OreoCookie:
Actually one special version of OS9 still does run on all Macs, including the latest G5s �_the Apple Hardware Test is based on OS9 technology
That's not OS 9, it's native Open Firmware code, Forth.
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