OS 9 Emulator won't start

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Hello,
I'm new here. I just signed up because I'm trying to help my mother out, but I know nothing about Macs, so please bear with me if I'm making a newbie mistake.
So I got OSX installed on her G4 (desktop) and everything works great, but the OS 9 Emulator (I believe it's called Classics or something like that) won't work, and a lot of her software is OS9. I was wondering if you could help me with that.
Sympotoms are difficult to describe. It starts loading, and I see the little SE/2 looking machine with the smiley, and then it shows the OS loading screen but nothing loads, it just hangs. That happens about half of the time. The other half of the time it gets to the same point, and instead of hanging it just disapears with narry an error message displayed.
Any thoughts?
Thank you so much,
Stephen
 
What version of Classic did she have installed? She should be upto 9.2.2 to run Classic without any crashes. Check Apple's website to download the updaters (OS 9.1, 9.2.1, and 9.2.2 Updaters if you only have 9.0.x, OS 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 Updaters if you have OS 9.1 already installed).

If she's running something older than 9.x, then she's going to have to purchase a copy of OS 9.2.2 from an Apple vendor. Check Other World Computing or some of the other vendors listed on Low End Mac.
 
nixgeek said:
What version of Classic did she have installed? She should be upto 9.2.2 to run Classic without any crashes. Check Apple's website to download the updaters (OS 9.1, 9.2.1, and 9.2.2 Updaters if you only have 9.0.x, OS 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 Updaters if you have OS 9.1 already installed).

If she's running something older than 9.x, then she's going to have to purchase a copy of OS 9.2.2 from an Apple vendor. Check Other World Computing or some of the other vendors listed on Low End Mac.
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Ok, umm, she's running 9.1, so I downloaded the two updaters, but the site has no information on how to upgrade. These don't appear to be CD images, and they aren't just zips or gzips... how the hell do I use these? (ex: "Mac_OS_9.2.2_Update.smi.bin")
Thanks,
Stephen
 
No, they aren't CD images. They are compressed files of the actual disk images made from Disk Utility or Disk Copy (depending on the version of Mac OS used).

First off, IF that Mac has the ability to boot into OS 9 (which used to be the case until that option was removed from the much-later G4 Macs), head to System Preferences and select the Startup Disk pane. In there, you'll see the available system folders that her Mac can boot from. If it can boot from the OS 9 System folder in there, then boot from there. Once booted into OS 9, run the updates in sequential order.

The other thing you might want to try before doing this is going into the Classic pane in System Preferences and see if you can fix anything from there. There are options there for you to troubleshoot a non-working Classic system folder.
 
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