Mac OS9.2 to OSX

[richie]

Can I upgrade OS9 to OSX on my sons Schools MAC.

I tink its a G3 and I have tried booting it with an OSX disk holding the c key down but it just chucks it out.

It only has 64 meg of ram

 

[richie]

Its an Imac G3 35Omhz

 

[Heston Service]

I think OSX has a minimum requirement of 128mb of ram (although that's pretty useless - 384 is pretty much a usable minimum for OSX 10.3) ..

You can confirm your son's specs by using Apple Sytem Profiler (in Applications on 9.2 I think - it's been a while) and then have a look here to see if his machine meets the requirements.

I've had problems in the past installing on old machines with non retail osx discs - ie one that comes with your machine. If you need to 'evaluate' a retail copy of Panther then I'll send one to you if you like.

Hope this helps

 

[richie]

Thanks heston, I stop there. Just trying to do the school a favour. But it looks like it won't work out.

OS 9 is pretty crap compared to OSX IMHO

 

[Andy80F]

OS9 was good in it's day but has been eclipsed by OSX. A 350Mhz G3 iMac is very capable of running OSX but as others have said it will need more, much more, RAM. 64Mb is modest for any task even under OS9 and substantive improvements could be made just by upping the RAM.

Andy