3/19/2023 0 Comments Omnidisksweeper 1.7.2In contrast, taking the IIsi through its paces was a joy. As for my personal observations, I have very little to add. His is an excellent write-up of the experience, and I urge you to give it a read. Chris’ approach seemed more open, and he sounded definitely more patient and willing to deal with the most challenging aspects of using a 28-year-old machine today. This time I must say I enjoyed Chris Wilkinson’s article so much more than I did Cunningham’s. Back then, I wasn’t particularly satisfied with how Cunningham approached his exploration, and I wrote an article in response detailing my observations: Actual work on vintage Macs is possible. (The only difference is that when you open the NetBootInstallation folder, you’ll only find the NetBoot HD.img image).Īfter Andrew Cunningham’s experiment in 2014 with a PowerBook G4 running Mac OS 9.2.2, another tech writer from Ars Technica goes vintage, with an even older, but more fascinating setup: a Macintosh IIsi (introduced in late 1990), running System 7.5.5, and connected to a Macintosh Portrait Display (similar vintage). Then it’s the same procedure we saw above from Step 3 onward. Tick the “Use Administrator Privileges” checkbox, authenticate when prompted. Open the package, select NetBoot HD.img, then click the Install button on Pacifist’s toolbar. Then, after installing Pacifist, you select Open Package from the main window, navigate until you find the NetBoot.pkg package mentioned above on Step 2. The Mac OS version will be 9.2.2.Īn alternative method is to use Pacifist (older versions for PowerPC Macs are on this page). At this point, Classic will proceed with its startup process and complete successfully. The second is about Classic having to update files in “System Folder” (see image above). The first is about the version of QuickTime being old, and you can dismiss it for now. Select it, and start Classic.Ĩ) You should get two warnings when you first start Classic. Double-click on NetBoot HD.img and mount the image.ĥ) Copy the contents of the image - Applications (Mac OS 9) and System Folder - to the root directory of the Mac’s drive.Ħ) Now open System Preferences → Classic.ħ) In the Classic preference pane, under “Select a system folder for Classic”, you should see the System Folder you copied on Step 5 appear below the Mac’s drive name. The folder is not empty.Ĥ) You’ll find three files inside NetBootInstallation. Open the Info panel for the folder (⌘-I), expand the Details in the “Ownership & Permissions” section, change the owner by clicking on the small padlock icon and authenticating with your admin credentials, and finally give yourself Read & Write permissions for the folder. If you try to open it, the Mac will warn that you don’t have sufficient access privileges. This doesn’t seem to matter for what we’re trying to achieve.ģ) Now, in the root directory of your Mac’s drive, you should see a folder called NetBootInstallation. The NetBoot Installer gives an error at the end of the installation. Choose your preferred one, then double-click on the NetBoot.pkg package and follow the Installer prompts. It’ll be a DMG file called NetBoot9.dmg.Ģ) Mount the DMG file, and you’ll see four language folders. The procedureīut having only the iBook and an Internet connection, this is what I came up with:ġ) Download NetBoot for Mac OS 9 from this page on the Apple KnowledgeBase. Simply copying the System Folder from my Mac OS 9 Installation CD didn’t work, in case you were wondering. Or perhaps I would have just copied the Mac OS 9 System Folder from my Titanium PowerBook G4/400. I was not at home, otherwise I would have probably tried to install Mac OS 9 from another vintage Mac capable of booting into Mac OS 9, while putting the iBook in Target Disk Mode. However, I had forgotten that this iBook, a late 2003 model, can’t boot into Mac OS 9. I wanted to use a few Classic applications on my iBook G4/800 running Mac OS X 10.4.11, and I was prepared to install Mac OS 9.2 via an original CD-ROM I own. If it helps other people, all the better. I don’t know if this is the simplest or quickest method to install the components needed to use the Classic environment on a Mac that can’t boot from Mac OS 9 directly, but this is what worked for me, and it seems simple enough. I’m writing this post to be more like a personal reminder in case I find myself in a similar situation in the future.
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