System 7 on G3? - Page 2

Qion · #9 March 8th, 2007, 09:20 PM

If you really want some nostalgia, I've got a Mac Classic and a StarMax sitting right next to my MacBook that I need to get rid of.

sinclair_tm · #10 March 9th, 2007, 10:53 PM

i love my starmax, its the 5500 even. but back on topic, if you are getting kps on install, its a hardware problem. in fact i just went though this. turns out it was a bad ram module. the new one i just got infact. sent it back, got another, and all is well. well, if it were me, i'd rig something to allow me to power the drive externally, and use a standard cable with a different drive (the mac open face) and install that way. if it still kps, then its not the cd drive or its cable. i'd then keep changing things a bit at a time till it installs fine.

PETC · #11 March 10th, 2007, 12:22 AM

I found some compatible RAM in an old Dell of mine that I assume will work in the iMac, and I'll probably try an external CD-ROM via some jerry riged IDE cable setup if that doesn't work.

Decade · #12 April 6th, 2007, 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Mikuro

Does anybody know if you could run System 7 with Mac-on-Linux on such a machine? Or on more recent machines, for that matter?

The problem with the various Systems 7 is that they were built for Old World systems, with fun stuff like a 68LC040 emulator and lots of Macintosh Toolbox in a chip on the motherboard. To make them work with Mac-on-Linux, you need to extract the contents of the ROM of a PowerPC machine that can run that version of System 7, and I don't know where you can find the program to do that these days. Maybe a ROM copier like what you'd use for Basilisk II can also work on PowerPC. Then there's the whole issue of whether it works these days; I remember Mac-on-Linux working with MacOS 8.1 on my Power Mac 7200 many years back, but it won't work on a 7200 anymore, and I don't know about Old World MacOS versions.

Mac-on-Linux also can work with G4 computers, but not G5 or Intel Core. For those, you're limited to Basilisk or similar, and extracting the ROM from a 68K Mac.

nixgeek · #13 April 6th, 2007, 04:10 AM

There's also SheepShaver, but I hear that it's tough to set up.

http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/sheepshaver/