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Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK

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DJW wrote:
> Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK. I do not have the original CDs for installing OS 9.2.2 which this IBook was the first that needed the 9.2.2 and not just 9.2.1! I have homemade installer discs for both 10.3 and 10.4 that work on my Blue and White G3 and an IMac Graphite computer. I am assuming that the OS 10 discs will work to install OS 10 on the IBook. The 10.4 discs I got from an Apple store employee that I assume are the generic disc that should work on most machines.
> It?s the OS 9 I not sure will work because it OS 9.2.1. I do have the update for that to 9.2.2. Do you think I will be able to install Os 10.3 or 104 and then install Os 9 and be able to run the update before it actually has to boot into OS 9 which it can?t as I think I have read correctly. Does the OS 9 install get done while 10 is running and it does not try to boot off the Hard drive before I could update to 9.2.2. It was so long ago that I installed both OS 10 and 9 for classic and pure Os 9 booting on the aforementioned computers I forget exactly how I did it. Do you boot into 9 off of the CD to install for classic? Am I right that first 10 gets installed then 9?
> It works fine now but was from a school and there is an account that is hidden and password protected and I just want to wipe it all clean and start anew for it was last installed in 2007.
> I bought an IBook on eBay form a non tech guy who got a bunch of them from an online high school in Texas. It?s an Apple iBook G3/800 (Early 2003 - Opaque White) with a 24x CD-ROM drive. Order No M8758LL/A Model No A1005 (EMC N/A) Subfamily 800 MHz 32 VRAM and with an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics
> The Original OS was Mac OS 9.2.2 and Mac OS X 10.2.4 and like I said above as far as I can tell it was the first IBook that had to run OS 9.2.2 only.
> I see a lot of gray installer cds on eBay for sale with 0S9.2.2.
> Besides my question as to order of OS 9 install and updating it to OS 9.2.2. Is there a site apples or other that can tell me the part numbers of the original or other newer workable installer CDs that will work with this model?

As far as I can remember the last retail version of 9 was 9.2.1. There would
be a gray 9.2.2 installer disk for that laptop, and only that laptop. 
Finding the correct one will be a real problem. You have to identify the
exact number of the disk and find one that matches it.

To boot OS9 and OSX, you need to install OS9 first. Then you install OSX over
it. The you have dual boot and classic, once you open the classic control
panel and set it up.

To boot only OSX, you need the 10.3 or 10.4 CDs since you have a 
CD only drive. 10.4 CDs were never sold retail, you had to buy a DVD and
send it and postage back to Appple to exchange it for a CD set.

Once you have OSX installed, you can insert an OS 9.2.1 retail CD and
it will install itself for classic mode. It will then install the OS9.2.2
update.

Note that if I have the model correct, then LowEndMac says it will boot
OS 9.2.1:

http://lowendmac.com/pb2/12in-ibook-g3-900-apr-2003.html

The page title is 900 but it also covers the 800/CD ones too.

Easiest thing to do is to put the 9.2.1 disk in the drive and hold down
C when it boots. Then try to run the installer. If you don't actually want
to install it, quit the installer before it starts the actual install.

Geoff.

-- 
Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379

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Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK DJW <ddwr@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-05 09:10 -0800
  Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-05 18:04 +0000
  Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-05 10:14 -0800
    Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-05 19:04 +0000
    Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-01-06 17:12 +0000
      Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-06 11:38 -0800
        Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-06 21:59 +0000
  Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK DJW <ddwr@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-06 09:50 -0800
  Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-01-07 12:27 +1100
  Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK DJW <ddwr@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-07 08:01 -0800
    Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-07 16:39 +0000
    Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2014-01-08 06:52 +0100
      Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-07 23:08 -0800
      Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-08 13:42 -0500
        Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-08 18:54 +0000
          Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-08 14:27 -0500

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