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Posted by: mvallance on 2016-03-18 19:36:02
Hello.
I have an iBook G3 clamshell Graphite edition running OS X 10.3.
I want to revert back to OS 8.5. I have the CD disk installer (an original).
But when I insert the disk I cannot install the OS.
How do I install 8.5 please?
Michael
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Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2016-03-18 20:19:33
Minimum OS for the second gen iBook Clamshell is 9.0.4.
The original model was 8.6 or higher.
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Posted by: rezwits on 2016-03-18 21:42:17
what white falcon said
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Posted by: CC_333 on 2016-03-18 21:53:01
Could 8.5 be used on the 1st gen iBooks if the later Mac OS ROM file from 8.6+ is used?
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Posted by: mvallance on 2016-03-19 01:34:12
I have OS 9 CD (and 9.1 somewhere).
The CD is ejected when I try to install OS so how do I actually install?
Thanks.
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Posted by: Byrd on 2016-03-19 01:41:50
The optical drives on Clamshells (the same in iMacs) are prone to failure - try burning a CD-R of the disc, or use an external FW drive (if it had FW)
Lastly why 8.5 on a PPC Mac? It's flaky, crash-prone and uses a lot of legacy 68K code - 8.6 and above were largely native PPC.
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Posted by: mvallance on 2016-03-19 01:44:51
It has Firewire so I will try that.
Reason: I have OS X on new Macs so I want to have at least 1 Mac with OS 8.5 or 9. I will opt for OS 9.
After that I hope to install PodRacer game, QTVR and Hypercard, maybe even Newton Connection kit if compatible ... all for demo purposes.
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