Thanks for all the advice. Oops,A little late reading whole brittle
plastic warning. nothing important is missing, but there are little
chips of plastic everywhere now. The plastic does not age well. The
hard drive had failed, i replaced it. Im going to find a newer ide cd
drive and try swapping th
> I went through a number of "this totally works on a beige G3" MacOS 8.x and
> 9.x ISOs before finding one that would boot my beige G3 desktop. I think it
> ended up being MacOS 9.2.1.
There is a "boot-any" CD from the last eMac that can boot OS 9 that will boot
any OS 9.2.2-compatible Mac, of wh
I went through a number of "this totally works on a beige G3" MacOS 8.x and
9.x ISOs before finding one that would boot my beige G3 desktop. I think it
ended up being MacOS 9.2.1.
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > Also
> Also (please correct me if I'm wrong), you lose the integrated floppy
> access.
You are correct. I don't believe it even works in 10.2, which *is* supported.
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On 12/12/2017 09:34 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> Although they make a very fast Classic MacOS box and a fairly slow OS
> X one, I found it very worthwhile to have OS X on there, even if just
> for downloading all the various tools and things you need to get
> Classic MacOS running nicely.
>
On 12 December 2017 at 12:29, Alexandre Souza via cctalk
wrote:
I'd only disagree with 1 bit of this.
> - Use MacOS 9.
They run 10.2 fine and can be coaxed into 10.3 quite readily with XPostFacto.
They will take any standard ATA hard disk. Stick in one of up to 128GB
-- they run into problems
I have a pair of beige G3, checklist:
- PULL the battery. if it is drained, it sometimes won't boot. Sometimes
even won't power on!
- Take care with the plastics, they're brittle
- The CD **ON THE POWERMAC G3** can be of any brand to boot (most macs
need an Apple branded CD!). So if you won't
Check the date code on the 'new' battery, there are quite a few sellers
that will sell you a battery 10 years old. Fry's is a perfect example.
-pete
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:04 PM, devin davison via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Battery does not appear to ahve leaked but is planned t
Battery does not appear to ahve leaked but is planned to be replaced.
I was unaware of having to press a key to boot to cd. Ill give it a
go.
Thanks for the quick response.
--Devin
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
> On 12/11/2017 03:35 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk w
On 12/11/2017 03:35 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
> Going from memory you need to press ‘C’ to boot from CD and you might also
> need to replace the PRAM battery.
>
I'll second the bit about the PRAM battery. I've got one of these
beige G3 boxes and can affirm that a failing PRAM batte
> On 11 Dec 2017, at 23:18, devin davison via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Someone just dropped off a mac g3 at the scrapyard I work at and I picked it
> up.
> It has a failing hard drive. Replaced the drive, downloaded and burned
> a disk with mac os 8 on it, but it refuses to boot to it. How do I go
Someone just dropped off a mac g3 at the scrapyard I work at and I picked it up.
It has a failing hard drive. Replaced the drive, downloaded and burned
a disk with mac os 8 on it, but it refuses to boot to it. How do I go
about installing the software on this machine?
Not sure if this is the place
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