imac g3 osx update

TaytoMan69 · 01-01-2012 10:39PM #1

Hi all, im having trouble with an imac g3 400mhz slot loading pc, i got it a while back and i cant connect to my upc router via ethernet cable, this is annoying as i want to upgrade to osx. can anyone out there help me with this, thanks

weeder · 01-01-2012 10:45PM

you wont need an ethernet cable for that, any version of osx that can be put on that mac has to be installed from a disk, as far as im aware 10.4.9 tiger is the latest it can run but it might just take 10.5 if your lucky but i dont think its capable, so you either have to make do with tiger running slowly or get a new one, you also have to track down a copy of tiger, both probabaly more bother than its worth

uncle_sam_ie · 01-01-2012 10:45PM

Wrong forum but, what version of OSX are you trying to install. Tiger might run on that G3. Although, how much RAM does it have?

TaytoMan69 · 01-01-2012 10:50PM

i have 10.4 on a disk, it didnt recognise disc 1 though, its got 128mb ram but i plan on upgrading it to 768mb or 1gb

weeder · 01-01-2012 10:53PM

going to be a bit hard to do anything with that without spending money to be honest, does it read any disks?

uncle_sam_ie · 01-01-2012 10:56PM

I got Tiger running on an old G4 eMac 700mhz. It was very slow and had a hard time surfing the Web. It wouldn't load Youtube at all. You might better off just upgrading to a new Mac.

TaytoMan69 · 01-01-2012 11:06PM

it reads discs fine, it read disc 2 of the install package and a dvd

TaytoMan69 · 03-01-2012 09:32PM

one of the problems is trying to burn the mac os from a windows computer, i can download them i just have no idea how to burn them onto a disc, its always an odd file type

Tij da feen · 03-01-2012 09:46PM

TaytoMan69 wrote: »

one of the problems is trying to burn the mac os from a windows computer, i can download them i just have no idea how to burn them onto a disc, its always an odd file type

It's because it's a .dmg file. You'd really want to make the discs on a Mac or else make a bootable firewire HDD. I got Tiger running on a G4 887Mhz but it was hardly running so I just ended up putting Ubuntu on it, 10.04 managed to work for me.

TaytoMan69 · 04-01-2012 04:48PM

would xp run on it?

uncle_sam_ie · 04-01-2012 05:01PM

No, it's the old PPC chip

TaytoMan69 · 04-01-2012 05:09PM

i see, then whats the best ubuntu for it, ive heard xubuntu is simple to use but my imac has 128mb ram 400mhz and a 10gb hdd, will it work with that? i plan to upgrade the ram in the future

uncle_sam_ie · 04-01-2012 05:22PM

TaytoMan69 wrote: »

i see, then whats the best ubuntu for it, ive heard xubuntu is simple to use but my imac has 128mb ram 400mhz and a 10gb hdd, will it work with that? i plan to upgrade the ram in the future

Check this out, he seemed to get it to work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I75I13GZyIk

TaytoMan69 · 04-01-2012 05:25PM

yeah but he has way more hard drive ram and power than my imac

uncle_sam_ie · 04-01-2012 05:40PM

Well,Ubuntu is free just give it a go.

TaytoMan69 · 04-01-2012 06:18PM

that is true

imac g3 osx update

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