Got a New Mac

[zarusboy]

I finally got a mac its a powermac g4 sawtooth 512mb of memory 1 40gb and 1 120gb hard drive. I was celebrating until it came time to set it up. I got all my drives in a such and i put the mac os 10.4 disc in and help down C upon boot, however it came up with a folder and a question mark, so i tried the os 9 disc,no luck so i just kept trying and eventually got 9 to work. However I want 10 and when i try to upgrade it says this disc cannot be used as boot, also whenever i turn on or restart the machine it ejects the drive try this is INCREDIBLY annoying is there a way to fix this?

-Tim

[zarusboy]

Nvm I got the problems sorted out it needed a new keyboard. Also I eventually managed to get mac os x on it. I actually modded the graphics card from my old pc machine to run on mac
so now instead of 16mb of vram it has a 128mb nvidia geforce fx 5200. Not to shabby eh?

[yizzel]

Wow!!, so the old keyboard stopped OS X from installing and ejecting the drives!?

What did you have to do to mod the video card? Wish I could do that on my iBook

[amon91]

At this time, it's better to have an Intel Mac from an apple store.

[yizzel]

Yeah an Intel Mac would be nice but they can't (natively) boot into OS9. But seriously, PPC Macs are better than *no* macs

[ElGuillermo]

Has anyone here got an Intel Mac emulating OS <=9.0.4 SheepShaver on it ?
Is the emulation worth it ? I don't get the point emulating an "old" OS9" OS on OSX, as it already have a 9.2.2 OS9, and can, with Rosetta, run 680x0 apps...

[yizzel]

OS X 86 doesn't come with OS 9.2.2 and it can't be installed either. Rosetta only runs PPC OS X apps but you can run BasiliskII and minivmac for 68k apps...

[ElGuillermo]

Oh! I didn't know OSX86 don't come with OS9, neither Rosetta don't emulate 680x0 apps... Now, I know the reason of installing OS9 680x0 emulators on OSX Thanks

[zarusboy]

I guess new was a bad choice of words But I got it for free since one of my friends gave it to me so I didnt waste that much money. Reflashing the graphics card is somewhat weird since you have to boot from a floppy in your pc the app I used was nvflash and I "updated" it with a mac rom

[SAK `]

The highest version of Mac OS that SS can run is 9.0.4 which is completely different in versions that 9.2. There was a screenshot emulating Mac OS 9 in SS using a Mac OS X version. It was Tiger, I think. Whatever you do, you do not want to run Sheepshaver within Mac OS X being emulated in PearPC. It can freeze and you will fail everytime. Trust me.