Can someone provide me with a good tutorial on installing Mac OC 9 onto an old Imac G3? I have never installed Mac OS before, so it needs be in depth and assuming nothing about the end-user.
Also, can I get one iMac like I want it and then duplicate the OS install to 6 others just like it? How do I do that?
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P.S. if your iMacs are new enough to have Firewire ports you can use firewire target disk mode to access the hard drive of one Mac from the other, without even having a system on the second hard drive.
To do that, connect the two Macs with a firewire cable. Boot one of the two. Then boot the second Mac while holding down the T key. The hard drive of the second Mac should then appear as a second hard drive on the desktop of the first Mac.
Part of it depends on whether OS X was already installed. Here is a great guide by Apple walking you through it
http://docs.info.apple.com
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by: strungPosted on 2009-08-26 at 11:43:22ID: 25190847
There are two ways to install OS 9 on a Mac.
The easy way is to boot from an OS 9 install CD by booting while holding down the C key. Then just double click on the installer.
Alternatively, just copy an OS 9 system folder to your hard drive. Then bless the system folder by opening it, dragging the Finder file to the desktop, then dropping the Finder file onto the CLOSED system folder. After that you will have to set the OS 9 folder as your startup folder in the Startup Disk control panel.
Legally, you should pay for each copy of OS 9 you use.