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I'm going to reinsall the OS for my G3 iMac and I have the original disk but am wondering, what is the difference between the iBook/iMac? I have the OS-9 which came with the iBook and it's a cd not a dvd, so can I install it on the iMac? Suppose there are a few changes and if it does work, then an airport card would work as well? Or at least work...  SignatureCheers! Dennis Remove 'Elle-Kabong' to reply > I'm going to reinsall the OS for my G3 iMac and I have the original disk > but am wondering, what is the difference between the iBook/iMac? One of them is easier to carry. > I have > the OS-9 which came with the iBook and it's a cd not a dvd, so can I > install it on the iMac? Maybe, maybe not. Since the Mac OS X days Apple ships Macs with installers that are only willing to run on that particular model. I don't recall if that applied to Mac OS 9 as well. (Maybe not, given that the Mac OS 9 installer doesn't require you boot from the installation CD.) Just try and you'll know. But why you would even want to bother I don't understand, given that you say you have the iMac's original installer. > Suppose there are a few changes and if it does work If it works it works. The installer won't install things differently. > , then an airport > card would work as well? Or at least work... Yes. SignatureSander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/> Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!" PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!" >> I'm going to reinsall the OS for my G3 iMac and I have the original disk >> but am wondering, what is the difference between the iBook/iMac? > > One of them is easier to carry. Depends on which one is in the car I suppose. >> I have >> the OS-9 which came with the iBook and it's a cd not a dvd, so can I [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > But why you would even want to bother I don't understand, given that you > say you have the iMac's original installer. Just because my original is 8.6 and the one which came with the iBook is OS-9. Not much of an improvement but some. >> Suppose there are a few changes and if it does work > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Yes. Figures. And an Airport card will go into the G3 iMac? SignatureCheers! Dennis Remove 'Elle-Kabong' to reply > ... And an Airport card will go into the G3 iMac? May need a special but simple adapter card which used to be available for older iMacs. Depends on the generation. Signature/Jon Put "jaalborg" for "navn", remove ".invalid". > I'm going to reinsall the OS for my G3 iMac and I have the original disk > but am wondering, what is the difference between the iBook/iMac? I have [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Suppose there are a few changes and if it does work, then an airport > card would work as well? Or at least work... In general, an OS Install CD that came bundled with a particular model of Mac will not work on another model of Mac. This has been true going back through many versions of the Mac OS, at least as far back as OS 7 and probably earlier, and is still true with OS X. This is an effort on Apple's part to cut down on piracy. Apple sells separate retail CDs and DVDs of its OS, that will work on any Mac model that can run that version of the OS. Retail CDs of old versions of the Mac OS are available on places like eBay. Bill Collins SignatureFor email, remove invalid. > In general, an OS Install CD that came bundled with a particular model > of Mac will not work on another model of Mac. This has been true going > back through many versions of the Mac OS, at least as far back as OS 7 > and probably earlier, Not precisely true. It was very often the case that an install disk that came with a later model would install on an earlier one, at least portable on portable and stationary on stationary. I did this lots of times with System 7.5 though 9.1/9.2. There were actually quite few hw-specific releases of the OS before OS X, and even those could often be installed on at least some other, earlier CPUs. E.g., AFAIR, 6.0.8 was released for the PowerBook 100, but could be installed on anything, although for other machines 6.0.7 would be equally good. But this is nitpicking, of course. :-) Signature/Jon Put "jaalborg" for "navn", remove ".invalid". |
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