Re: Installing OS9 to G4 MDD 1.25Ghz

In article <041020240707006057%vintageapplemac@gmail.com>, scole
<vintageapplemac@gmail.com> wrote:

 
Second reinstall came round this week and I knew the process, but it
was still a hellish drag to open up the computer, connect the OSX
drive, boot to that (very slowly again... I subsequently did a fresh
install of Tiger to it so I have a cleaner OSX to boot into in the
future), and then mount and drag and drop. There has to be a simpler
way, right? I can't find any hacked bootable 9.2.2 installer that would
make my life simpler and negate the need  for OSX. Anyone have any
ideas or can point me in the right direction?

Well, just had to reinstall OS9 to this machine *again*... Was fine
yesterday evening but when I booted it this morning, folder with
question mark appeared. Booted again holding option key, but the OS9
boot drive did not appear to select. Went through the usual steps, zap
PRAM etc, to no avail.

Rather than open the machine up and connect that OSX drive I have, I
thought I'd boot from my Tiger retail DVD and have a look using Disk
Utility. The OS9 partition was greyed out, so tried to verify and
repair it but got an "invalid key length" error, whatever that means.

But then I had a brainwave; I had put the OS9 .dmg onto one of the
other SSD partitions, so could I mount that using the retail DVD tools
and then restore it to the OS9 partition as a fresh install? Turns out
I could! Within a few minutes I was booting into a virgin 9.2.2,
again...

So, I have indeed found a marginally simpler way of installing OS9 to
an G4 MDD 1.25Ghz!