[rescue] Obtaining Mac OS 9 Question

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:13, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
> " 
> " Bill Bradford wrote:
> " > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:01:16AM -0400, William Enestvedt wrote:
> " > 
> " >>   Really? I've never heard of those coupons being used for *anything*
> " >>going back years. I think they just keep putting them in the box to
> " >>torture us.
> " >>-wde
> " > 
> " > 
> " > I used one to get the 10.1 upgrade for a penny at Fry's.  Years ago.
> " 
> " I could use a straight 9.2 CD myself, not to mention a copy of
> " 10.something ... I still want to try to get OSX in this G3-ified Power
> " Mac 7600 sometime.  Reportedly it should run right up to Tiger with
> " XPostFacto, but I understand I have to have 9.2 on the machine first.
> 
> i'm not sure these older machines can natively boot anything newer
> than 9.1.

Ahh.. missed that... I used 9.0 to load my 7500.. but MacOS 9.1 would
work.... (I need to find a copy of 9.1 at some point).

There is a 'hack' out there that will allow you to upgrade 9.1 loads
(and I think 9.0 loads) on an old world Mac to get up to 9.22...

-- Curt

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