I kinda need help installing Mac OS X Cheetah. Every time I put it on a disc or media I always get a ripped finder icon.
How can I get a bootable copy of Cheetah?
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2014, July 3 - 8:07pm
#1
Mac OS X Cheetah help
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2014, July 3 - 9:51pm
#2
So you do have the original CD?
Otherwise I might upload mine. Personally I would not try to run 10.0 as a productive system.
10.3 was not that bad e.g. for the iMac Bondi blue.
2014, July 4 - 12:13am
#3
I don't have my Mac OS X Cheetah disc now but I just install Cheetah on a separate media like a USB since my cousin only likes Cheetah for some reason. I have Tiger installed.
2014, July 4 - 1:22am
#4
You could try the ones at WinWorldPC. Scroll down the page to the 1st one labeled "Apple Mac OS X 10.0 (''Cheetah'' 10.0.4K78).7z", its a 365MB DL. It may be universal, the 2nd Cheetah DL is possibly for early G4 towers only. These DL's are also .7z compressed iso's, so you'll need to use a software that can extract from this format.
If the Mac you're trying to boot up into Cheetah, originally shipped with a newer Mac OS X, then it will not boot up to it, period.
2014, July 4 - 3:18pm
#5
My iMac shipped with Mac OS 8.5.
But can you also boot an OS from a USB Flash drive?
2014, July 4 - 4:31pm
#6
The newer Intel Macs can boot from a USB stick. But (some, many, most, all-I don't know which) older ones cannot.
Absolutely NO USB support exists for booting Mac OS 9.2.2 and lower from a stick.
Target-Disk-Mode (boot from a system disk on another computer) was/is limited to FireWire disks.
Gary
2014, July 4 - 5:24pm
#7
So I have to boot from a FireWire disks?
2014, July 4 - 9:35pm
#8
Your iMac will probably boot from usb, almost all usb1 macs will (all that i have tried will, that is my ibook G3's (both a 600mhz 16vram and a 500mhz dual usb) my G4 QS, my G4 MDD and my iMac G4)
BUT, 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 10.3 will not boot from USB (10.4+ will and 9.2.2 will, not sure on anything below 9.2.2)
However everyhting will boot from firewire.
2014, July 5 - 12:13am
#9
Booting an older Mac from USB requires messing with Open Firmware flags.
https://sites.google.com/site/shawnhcorey/howto-boot-apple-powerpcs-from... — google around for more.
2014, July 5 - 2:40pm
#10
Seems like every thing I tried won't work.
2014, July 5 - 3:21pm
#11
oddly i have never had the OF trick work. However i have booted pleanty of ppc macs from usb by holding option at boot and just picking the drive there. But either way you won't boot cheetah from USB.
2014, August 1 - 3:42am
#12
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-osx-mac-os-10-ppc
You'll need to burn a CD to install from either your internal CD drive or an external firewire CD/DVD drive.