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February 1st, 2007, 09:00 AM
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| flashing Broken File after attempting to install Osx Someone gave me an old iMac G3 m5521 that runs/ran Os 9. The machine has slot loading DVD drive and Firewire... I tried to install Tiger on it and it rejected it saying that it cannot be installed on this computer. Now when i start the iMac I get this file icon with question mark flashing forever.  When I restart the computer with the option button pressed I am not getting any start up disks....just too buttons on the screen (recycle) and (arrow pointing right). Pressing the latter 2 does not do anything. I don't have the original OS9 disc to restore it. Is there a way to fix it painlessly? Thank you.  Last edited by mauve; February 1st, 2007 at 09:57 AM.  |
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February 2nd, 2007, 12:00 AM
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| not without the os 9.2 install cds
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February 2nd, 2007, 12:10 AM
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| You need to apply firmware before the Tiger install. You must also have 256 MB of RAM. After that, Tiger should install. The catch is that you must have OS 9 installed to install the firmware.
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February 2nd, 2007, 12:41 AM
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| Funny but Tiger actually can be installed on that iMac. Perhaps it just needed a firmware update, though it should have shown a dialog box to that effect. I don't know if you can use the OS X disc to do anything at all without the proper firmware, but unsupported Macs do at least allow you to choose Start-up Disk from the drop-down menu when you boot from the DVD. Though it is probably too late for that now to be of any help. But Mac OS 9 is available as a free download. Macosxhints has all the instructions on how to get a disk image out of it. |
