- #HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 MAC OS#
- #HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 INSTALL#
- #HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 SERIAL#
- #HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 UPDATE#
#HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 INSTALL#
More recently I have used a USB flash drive to install 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, and 10.10 Yosemite on my MacBook.įollowing a similar method, I created a USB flash drive containing the Tiger installer. In the past I used a FireWire iPod to install Tiger and OS X 10.5 Leopard on G3 and G4 Macs.
#HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 MAC OS#
Installing Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger would be tricky, as it came on DVD unless you contacted Apple, and then they would swap it for a CD version – but these are hard to come by now. It only had a CD-ROM drive, which meant I couldn’t use it for burning disks or reading a DVD. I just picked up a Clamshell iBook with a broken optical drive. But it seems some PowerPC Macs can boot from USB. Mac OS 9.2.2 updater (updates Mac OS 9.2.1 to 9.2.2)ĭisk First Aid 8.6.If you wanted an external drive for booting a PowerPC Mac, you officially needed a FireWire one. Mac OS 9.2.1 updater (updates Mac OS 9.1 or 9.2 to 9.2.1) Mac OS 9.1 updater (updates Mac OS 9.0 - 9.0.4 to 9.1) *when finished, burn the CD - in case you're given the choice, make sure to select "Mac OS Standard (HFS)" volume format, not "Mac OS Extended (HFS+)" and set the Energy Saver control panel to "never go to sleep" also set all other preferences/control panels to your preferred settings (once again, you might need to copy files over from the System Folder you're booted to for these changes to take effect) *now you should remove anything that may have been stored in "Startup Items" or "Shutdown Items" inside the disk image's System Folder you might also want to remove some useless control panels, extensions, etc. *when running applications from the disk image, some applications might create preference files in the System Folder you are currentlyīooted to - in that case, just copy those preference files to the System Folder on the disk image afterwards *disable any AutoUpdate- / LiveUpdate-features, as the applications on the CD can't be updated anyway once they've been burned
#HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 SERIAL#
a serial number) - otherwise they will ask for registration when booted from the CD and therefore might not work *now run those applications on the disk image which require registration (e.g. *when using Mac OS 9.2.x, remove these files from the System Folder: "Classic", "Classic Support" and "Classic Support UI"
#HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE USB MAC IBOOK G4 UPDATE#
*you can now use a Mac OS installer (your original Mac OS install CD, for example) to install a System Folder to that disc image (once installed, you can also update that system using any updater) and add all applications you want (try to install them whenever possible, because simply copying things over will not always work) * fill in a name for the CD, make sure that a size of 663,000K (CD-ROM 12cm, full) is selected and "Mount Image" is checked (checking the "Zero blocks"-option also is a good idea) *start Disk Copy (usually located in the Utilities-folder), select Image>Create new Image. This is a way that can be used with different burning applications (they just have to be able to install the necessary wrapper code to make a volume bootable): Use the information below at your own discretion.ĭiscribe or other CD burning software to make a bootable CD, because Apple's Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution atĪpple Support. Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below.