Re: Installing OS9 to G4 MDD 1.25Ghz

In article <ved84n$31rs$1@dont-email.me>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2024-10-12 05:12:03 +0000, scole said:

 
Not for OS9 for this MDD, or so I've read on the web anywhere I've
looked; all the info I've found is that the only official release of
9.2.2 that's right for this machine is in the .dmg on one of the
set-of-4 install CDs that shipped with it.
 
And even that image isn't an actual bootable installer, it's more like
a hard disk back-up image and the intent is to use Disk Utility in OSX
to "restore" the back-up to a partition and that's how you get OS9 onto
the G4 MDD 1.25Ghz. I was hoping that some bright spark might have
hacked a bootable version of it I could burn to CD, but I didn't find
such a thing when I was looking recently.

 
You may well be right about 9.2.2 specifically, since that is a minor
update. The retail CD would likely have been 9.2 and then you're meant
to use updaters.
 
I'm not sure about that particular model. It's possible that it wasn't
designed to boot in MacOS 9, so the "installer" is only for installing
the Classic environment to use under MacOS X to run older programs.

This particular MDD variant is a native-OS9 booter; it's the "single
CPU" version of the 1.25Ghz, released alongside the Dual 1.42Ghz MDD to
provide continued native OS9; I think the story at the time was that
there was quite an uproar in the design/photography/media sector that
the 2002 (or was it 2003?) PowerMacs were OSX only (Classic Mode
disregarded), which at that point therefore suddenly rendered a lot of
industry-standard software temporarily defunct, so Apple put this
machine on the market to retain OS9 nativity and made good sales volume
out of it.

You could try one of these custom-made bootable installers (the second
one is a newer version):
<https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-922-universal>
<https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-922-universal-install-2014>

Oh, huzzah! Thanks, man, these look promising. I will investigate. I
did search the Garden for variations of "MDD OS9 Bootable" but never
saw these, so much appreciation for flagging them up to me.