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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Dumb PowerPC question | Posted by: mloret on 2022-04-15 18:25:43
Hello! I just obtained a Performa 6300CD! Everything seems to work including the floppy, HD and CD-ROM. The computer came to me with no system installed on the HD so I used a Legacy Disk Image stored on my BlueSCSI to install a version of OS 8 on it. Not bad! However, I read that it will also run OS 9 which isn’t on my legacy restore disk. Im not sure what is the best way to get OS 9 on this thing. Should I find an install disk image in Macintosh garden and burn it on to a CD? Or could I put the same image on the bluescsi? If I did this would I need to save it as an HDA? I would prefer to install on to the build in HD rather than using my bluescsi as the HD. Any advice is appreciated. | Posted by: volvo242gt on 2022-04-15 19:26:36
I'd probably burn a CD of 9.0, then update it to 9.0.4/9.1, etc... That'll be simplest. With the OS 9 Helper patch, it should be able to use 9.2.2. I did that on my old 7500/100. | Posted by: mdeverhart on 2022-04-15 19:51:51
I’d (mostly) second that recommendation. Find an ISO of one of the retail OS 9 releases (I found 9.0.4 pretty easily, I think there’s a 9.1 or 9.2 out there as well). I’d avoid the 9.2.2 “universal” installers that are out there - as far as I know, Apple never released a 9.2.2 retail CD, mostly they were machine specific disks.
Whatever you find, burn it to a CD, boot off the CD, and install it on whichever drive you like. | Posted by: volvo242gt on 2022-04-15 20:41:36
Yeah, to get to 9.2.2, you have to install 9.2 with the OS 9 Helper patch on the installer for that version, then, do the same with 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 to get all the way. | Posted by: Cory5412 on 2022-04-19 10:03:40
6300 should run Mac OS 9. They don't officially run 9.2.2, or even 9.2.1, so what I'd do is get a retail 9.0.4 or 9.1 CD and just use that. I've got a few EN-US images here: http://vtools.68kmla.org/~/coryw/iso-temp/ - these were ripped on windows, anything like imgburn should burn 'em fine.
As you're trying different things, I'd say look at 7.6.1 and 8.1 for this machine, they should have a decent mix of functionality/features and still running well on that hardware.
Though, trying different things and deciding what you like is also part of the fun!
EDIT: Looks like in the other thread someone was able to get an OS 9 CD for you, great to hear it! | | 1 |
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