Installing OS 9.2.2 ...

[chriskleeman]

I have a retail OS 9 install disc. I'm not sure whether it's 9.1 or 9.2. I can't remember, wasn't 9.2.2 available as a download from Apple?

Anyway, when I get home tonight, I'll have a look and see which version it is. If it's useful to you GR I can send it to you.

Chris K

[tacit]

The first rule of buying software over the internet:

People lie.

Almost anything you read in an eBay description of some software product is, unfortunately, quite likely to be a lie. OEM installers for one Apple model will not work with a different Apple model. Any CD that is specific to a particular Apple model absolutely is not licensed to be sold on its own; it may ONLY be sold with the computer that came with it. Any black Apple CD is absolutely bogus; in their entire history, Apple has never made a black installer CD for any version of OS 9. (To me, it looks like the "black" CD is actually a gray CD in a poor-quality, underexposed photograph.)

[krissel]

Hold it.  I have OS 9 discs and they are all white as Paddy said and look just like the one above, language problem aside:

http://cgi.ebay.fr/Apple-Mac-Retail-OS-9-2...f#ht_500wt_1112

That pic makes it look grey but it is white.

 I also have used the OS 9 disc that came with my folks' eMac (grey) and it installed on my sister's old Snow iMac. Many of the eMac discs are compatible with other Macs.

The DA's are not as picky as the MDDs were.

Note: I bought a grey (eMac) Tiger DVD and installed it to an external, then cloned it to my DA for the original X install way back when.... You might try doing the same with the OS 9 disc.

Edit: the more I think about it, except for the MDD special OS 9.2.2, OS 9 was pretty generic.  OS X was rather universal at first but quickly became model specific. OS 9 was in the earlier Apple years where the OS installed on virtually anything. I had PowerComputing CDS that worked on my Performa.

Here 's a way to create a universal installer:

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=2650

BTW: did you format the drive with OS 9 drivers?

[krissel]

More: Found another way to make a universal install (theoretically):

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All retail OS 9 Install CDs, and most OEM ones (the ones labelled Software Install, not the ones named Software Restore), have the ability to perform a Universal (boot any Mac) install of OS 9. Perform a universal install of OS 9.0.4, update it with universal installs of the needed updates, and it should work fine when transferred to the other machine, provided that the final version is one supported by that machine.

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To do a universal install -

1) Boot the machine to the CD if necessary, then run the installer. Step through the pages in the installer (choosing the correct destination volume in the process) until you get to the "Install Software" page, the page with the "Start" button on it. Don't click that button.

2) Click the "Customize" button at the bottom left of the page.

3) On the new page, click the pulldown menu to the right of "Mac OS 9.x", and select "Customized Installation..." from the list offered.

4) On the next new page, at the top is another pulldown menu labelled "Selection:" - click that menu and select "Universal Installation".

5) OK that page, then click the "Start" button.

These instructions may apply to the OS 9.1 download update, do apply to the OS 9.2.1 download update, but do not apply to the OS 9.2.2 download update.

Which Macs take what version of 8/9:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1835

[ADSR]

Resarching in my old cds, found and tryed a lot of differents 9x install (but not the white one) ...

Once installed , they all  stop  when the finder is on the screen,  at the window  "gathering infos"?

I've formated the drive whith disk utility (os 9.2.2) update drivers on. Maybe should try whith OSX whith the os9 option?

Last night found a Powermac G4 restore cd whith 9.1 ...install it the boot was ok , apply the 9.2.1 update and come back to the "gathering infos" window  blocking everything

Something more to do , test?

GR

[Paddy]

While I can't find any info on the hang/freeze during installation of OS 9, I did come across some threads where this same "gathering information" stall happened with Disk Utility etc. in OS X. Some of the responses pointed to hardware issues, but they were all OS X issues, not OS 9 issues.

Usually when OS 9 was "gathering information" it was looking for a network connection - and this could take up to 15 minutes (apparently...ah the good old days...not!) Is your DA connected to the network? (Though this in and of itself shouldn't be an issue in that I've installed 9 on computers that weren't online at the time...)

But I'd definitely try Kris's suggestion of putting the drive in an external case and installing 9 that way.

[ADSR]

Had tryed both English or French install, network connected or not..

Always the same thing:

 Mac OS setup assistant window ...one moment please...gathering system information

Impossible to close the window or access the finder.

But  it's not a freeze , mouse is  working...

Tryed a force quit whith the keyboard.... ATI  video accelerator was involved, as soon  I get access to the set up assistant and the finder

The video card is ATY RV250 (ATY DDParent   ATY PheonixParent  64 MB) ... do you have a link to upgrade the driver?

 can't find it , don't know the real name of the card



Thanks
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GR

[krissel]

That's the Radeon 9000, apparently the last card Apple supported for OS 9.

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Page...-3x-radeon.aspx

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Thought this discussion was interesting related to your other problem.

http://forums.cnet.com/7723-21564_102-356408.html

[dboh]

QUOTE(jchuzi @ Mar 1 2011, 06:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You were taken. First of all, you didn't get what you ordered and the gray disc eMac definitely won't work for you.

Then something must have changed something between 9.2 and 10.3.9. My disks for 10.3.9, which I got from OWC are labeled for eMac, but they work just fine on my GR Quicksilver 2002. I remember calling up OWC when I saw "eMac," but they assured me they'd be okay, and they have been.

[ADSR]

Yes , the Emac cd works...

The problem was  ATI video accelerator , strange problem for a clean  install !

don't know why... (maybe  my monitor , the Apple studio display)

GR