No, it's not 2000-and-something still. Okay, if you're going to be pernickety about it, then yes, it is. It's not the noughties as we know them anymore. However, I do still have a 2001 iMac G3 Indigo/500 which I got from the secondary school I went to (long story, could be similar to Derek Wallcott's Omeros in terms of length) to save it from becoming landfill when it worked excellently. I received it with Mac OS 9.2.2, it came with OS 9.1 discs, and I foolishly installed the older version without realising until I had formatted the hard disk drive.

 

Anyway, my issue lies within trying to install OS X Tiger 10.4.11, which it can run AFAIK. It just refuses to install, I'm either seeing loading screens or errors I can't remember the name of (I'll post when they come to me). I don't have "original OS X Tiger" installation media because it came with 9.1, thus I am burning CDs (all four) and have done multiple times for something to go wrong. I'd have used a DVD but it's only got the treacle-slow CD writer and I've got more chance of finding fangs within a chicken than I am of finding a FireWire DVD drive (won't boot from a USB DVD-ROM drive) for less than the value of my car. I had also considered using another computer as a boot device but this is my only Apple product (besides iPods and a burnt out 1995 PowerBook 190) The iMac is running Mac OS X 10.3.9 currently with it's measly 500MHz PPC processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 20GB Quantum Fireball (original) hard drive. I was hoping to run 10.4 so I could use the TenFourFox browser or equivalent, which requires 10.4 as a baseline. 

 

Now, I say this iMac works fine, but knowing my reputation, it's probably cursed or something odd like that. There's no other need for this thing to still exist beside the nostalgia factor and childhood memories I get when booting the "little" thing up, I'd just like it to be running the newest possible OS for it.

 

Any help is appreciated, because I'm stuck for ideas.

Edited 26 October, 20223 yr by AnnoyingPentium
Additional Information.

Where are you getting the Tiger Disk Image from? I think 10.4.6 was the last 'disk' installer available for Tiger, and the combo update took you to 10.4.11 from that.

If you've got disk image from a copy of an install disk, then make sure it's a copy of a retail disk as they had a few model-specific restore disks that may be causing errors if they're not specifically for your model?

55 minutes ago, Mort said:

Where are you getting the Tiger Disk Image from? I think 10.4.6 was the last 'disk' installer available for Tiger, and the combo update took you to 10.4.11 from that.

 

10.4.2 on CD I believe, got it from here. The combo update will be on a USB somewhere.

 

56 minutes ago, Mort said:

If you've got disk image from a copy of an install disk, then make sure it's a copy of a retail disk as they had a few model-specific restore disks that may be causing errors if they're not specifically for your model?

 

I think it's from a retail disc. I know the model-specific ones were grey for quite a while, as the C2D MacBook I borrowed a while back had the grey install disc. 

Okie dokie... almost a year on, what have I achieved?

 

Well, I got it running 10.4.11 with an 80GB hard disk! So far so good.

 

Still going to need new speakers and the fold out stand but I'll sort those out later. I threw on a copy of TenFourFox too and optimised it a little so now it's a surprisingly competent bit of kit for the "business" end of things.

 

 

That's all.