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So I bought an eMac with a formatted hard drive and no OS. Short of buying a OSX 10.2-10.4 disk off ebay how can I install an OS?

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Thats literally it unless you have another PPC mac and a firewire cable.

I managed to launch it with Lubuntu but then Kernel panic happened ;___;

That's what you get for buying apple.

Dat PPC tho

Install Gentoo? Or Yellow Dog Linux?

>So I bought an eMac

>installing linux on PPC

Install OpenBSD

epik

maybe try macrumors instead of a technology imageboard

>stop asking about technology on a technology board
That's one quality post you've got there

Macrumors ppc section is the least cringe part of macrumors. Its still cringe though.

Pirate a Tiger DMG and burn it to a DVD

write osx to disk
download it from rutracker

OS 9 had iTunes?

Trying Panther, it only recognizes like 1/2 the amount of RAM or something

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That's dope. OS 9 seems quite usable desu family.

Yeah. iTunes 2.0.4. There is probably a better music player but i rarely use this laptop anyways.

Wouldn't boot from OS 9 for some reason ;___;

I fucking love the OS 9 aesthetic. I don't know what it is.

It's so comfy it makes me want a PPC mac.

I got this 2nd gen TiBook for $40 on ebay. Its quite nice. I also have a dual 450 Mhz gigabit G4 tower, but it needs new fans and my main hard drive died (dragging all my edgy middle school files with it.) 10.4 runs decently on it, 10.5 was horrid, but 9.2.2 is the comfiest so far.

>not using PPC

Kek

Is there even a TiBook that meet's Leopard's CPU requirements? That'd be why it's shit. You shouldn't be considering Leopard unless you're in the >1GHz range

The last gen one can. I have no idea why the seller put leopard on it, but i put 10.4.11/9.2.2 dual boot on it now and copied leopard off onto my towers 2nd drive in case i get a newer ppc mac some time down the line. Maybe a 17" or 12" hotplate

>12" PowerBook G4
Best laptop of all time. One of these days I'm upgrading the screen on mine to 1400x1050 IPS

if all fails, install PC Lubuntu on that thing. apparently you can get in on this LTS
cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/trusty/release/

>only 4.1 GHz

Torrent the Tiger install disc dmg and burn that from a PC.
Boom.

The case would be EXCELLENT for a hackintosh

Poo in the loo Rajeesh.

TiBook fag here. I have a dead one and thats my plan for it. I gave to disassemble the crt a bit though so i can do it similarly to what a german guy did because i cant just find a certain part.

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Download osx off the internet yo. Leopard is the last o e it supports

install os9 and get some games from here

macintoshgarden.org/

Where do mactard morons get the false impression Sup Forums is google?

Fuck off

>implying this problem is exclusive to Mac users
Sup Forums is full of threads that shouldn't be here

H-how?

1. Go to the apple store.

2. Bend over.

3. Remove pants.

You can do quite a bit with Open Firmware

simply ebin

That shit is overclocked or you just fucked with the reporting?

I just went through the same thing with a no OS G4 cube I recently bought.
Go to "Macintosh Garden", scroll down to "most popular" click on Mac OSX for PPC and pick whichever OS you want. It'll download a bootable disk image.

I downloaded Tiger, burned it's dmg to a DVD using disk utility on a modern mac and then held down the option key during boot up.

Also, Tiger is much larger than necessary, so during install you may want to pick "custom install" and just uncheck the printer drivers and additional languages, which alone are about 2gb of the 4gb disk.

The process is the same for OS 9 (for that just search OS 9.2.2 universal install, I think the site is called Mac OS 9 lives), but if you want to dual boot to OS9 and OSX you must partition both sections as Mac OS extended, before installing Tiger, then install Tiger first. For some reason when I did it if I had installed OS 9 first it would simply refuse to boot up to either OS, even with partitions in the correct format.

Fucked with the reporting, I used the same method used to install Leopard on sub-867MHz G4s.

Find a torrent of the iso
burn that shit
Press command something something
Get that white screen
Boot from CD

If you cant find the iso file you could get a DMG burner program for windows and find the DMG file

Or get any mac with a disk drive. Make sure your iso or DMG is the PPC version