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How to install OS 9 on my PowerBook G4?

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I am having trouble getting Mac OS 9.2.2 installed on my PowerBook G4 Titanium (867mhz). I am knowledgeable with Windows and Linux but I have no experience on how to setup these older Macs. They seem to have a lot of disparate drivers that are very specific and shipped on install discs with those machines only. This is very foreign to me as I'm used to genetic OS disk/discs and then installing a selection of compatible drivers. I downloaded this: > Download #4: Mac OS 9.2.2 system folders extracted from the PowerBook G4 Titanium (DVI) A1025 (867MHz/1.0GHz) Software Install and Restore DVD. Unstuffed, this should result in a bootable OS 9 toast image. https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-922-system-folders Which I extracted from the .sit file using Stuffit Expander on a newer Mac running OSX. I then mounted the .toast file and copied the files by dragging them onto a disk newly formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I installed the disk I to the PowerBook and achieved only a partial success. I get a little face in a folded that blinks to a question mark. The folder has the appearance of OS 9 but does not boot. enter image description here enter image description here Simply formatting a disk and then copying files to it is really strange to me. I'm used to having to setup boot partitions or some kind of a bootloader. But from what I've read you just drag and drop the files? Here are the files as they appear on the disk. Are the folder names right? enter image description here
Asked by Zhro (271 rep)
Sep 26, 2020, 07:32 AM
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