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Thanks everyone for your replies.. Looks like I might have to buy another mac to boot os9, this one has FW800. : ) Are there any alternatives?

How can I get a copy of OS9? I was able to boot from the cd finally after shutting down and starting up again.. Does OS9 usually come with G4s?

Okay I've tried holding down "c" after reboot with the installation disk inserted but it's not giving me an options- it just boots like normal.. I'm wondering if I have the right disk, my disk says "Power Mac G4 Software Install and Restore" Mac OS 10.2.3 (but It also has OS9 classic on it and...

Ok I'm trying the Perl on the whole directory but it's not working.. The command I'm trying is perl -n -e 'm$<Ref href = "(.*)" />$;`curl -O $1`' < /users/me/desktop/dirwithallthewaxfiles/* This doesn't work for some (probably simple) reason but it works flawlessly for individual files so I'm...

wow both of these replies are absolutely genious but now I'm beginning to realize that I left a couple of important things out and I'll elaborate now for the sake of confusion.. . On my part, of course.. I've been working at this and I have about 800 more to go (I've been doing this manually...

Ohh ok.. So how would I boot from the installation disk to install it? This won't erase anything that has to do with OSX will it?

Yes I've even tried re-installing it (OS9)

I just got a Dual 1.25Ghz PowerPC G4. I was told I'd be able to dual boot but I'm beginning to believe otherwise. I really like OSX but most of my old audio programs run on OS9 only, however when I go to system prefs, startup disk there's no OS9 option there. I've tried re-installing os9 but...

I hope this is possible because I'm going to be stuck on this for a looooooooong time if not. In a text editor I have a lot of different web sites that link to several files. The string goes something like <ASX version = "3.0"> <Entry> <Ref href =...