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ok first of all.. im a native PC technician.. never really played with a mac anything over the old 68K macs what i have here is a G3 B&W that needs firmware 1.1 before it will install OS 10.3 Panther and i've searched and so far found that you have to have a running copy of MacOS to do a firmware upgrade.. so i downloaded a copy of MacOS 9.1 fumbled around google found software called Transmac that burned the .dmg put it in the mac and it wont boot form it i just get the ? and mac logo that blinks but if i put the 10.3 cds in it will boot into the installer go all the way start installing the last think i usulay see is configuring Java and then it eather says there has been error please restart or it goes to a blue background with the spining circle and will sit there for hours.. im lost im hoping theres another way to upgrade the firmware because i cant get any os on it.. i've even went as far as trying to load a PPC Version of linux they all fail.. most of them will get to the install process and eather lock up or reboot. some of them will not even get to the install process

please help!!
 
why am i being ignored i cant get any os on this mac not even the copy of 10.3 Panther i just bought due to i need a firmware update. and i cant do that without a os please help
 
1) Not all Macs are compatible with OS-X. To run OS X.3, I would suggest a fast machine and much more RAM (I ran X.2 on my G3 B&W with 300 MB RAM, but that's not enough to be smooth).
2) To upgrade, you have to remain within the same OS class.
9 -> 9.2, 10.1 -> 10.1.x, 10.3.0 -> 10.3.x You cannot upgrade from 9.2 to 10.3 with just an upgrade CD, you need a full install CD for that.
3) I would suggest you use 8.6 on your B&W mac.
 
Unfortunately, you need an older Mac OS (9.2.2 or below) to install the firmware update in order to install Mac OS X properly. Remember that when this Mac was released, earlier versions of the Mac OS were being used and OS X was still in heavy development. So it would be understandable that Apple only made the firmware available for pre-OS X operating systems since they couldn't install Mac OS X properly anyways. When Mac OS X wa released (even with the public beta), most Macs either needed the firmware or already had the proper support built-in (since the latter was probably included with a copy of Mac OS X, either version 10.0, 10.1, or 10.2).

You can purchase a copy of 9.x from here, install that followed by the firmware update, and then install OS X. Besides, you'll need Mac OS 9 for the Classic environment within OS X.
 
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