Project G3: Getting Leopard on an Unsupported Mac

[doscore]

cool time to bust out the iBook g3 I have and give it a whirl!

 

[christiann]

How’s the script coming along?

I never got it finished. I don’t know how to finish it as it’s a shell script.

 

[christiann]

So I see what you mean about the newer versions, I managed to get the installer to boot, but it hangs at a blue screen then shuts off. This is on all versions past 9a303.

Were you able to get 9A303 to work fully?

 

[lepidotós]

I have 9a303 installed on my 900MHz, Finder constantly crashes but it did fully install. By "constantly crashes," I mean constantly. Every single second.​

 

[christiann]

I have 9a303 installed on my 900MHz, Finder constantly crashes but it did fully install. By "constantly crashes," I mean constantly. Every single second.​

Oh geez. What media did you use to install it? I’m curious.

 

[lepidotós]

I used a USB flash drive that I've used on that same iBook before to install 9.2.2 and 10.4.11 successfully.

 

[christiann]

I used a USB flash drive that I've used on that same iBook before to install 9.2.2 and 10.4.11 successfully.

Ah. I never had success with a USB install.

 

[MacPro2006VBox]

I have 9a303 installed on my 900MHz, Finder constantly crashes but it did fully install. By "constantly crashes," I mean constantly. Every single second.​

9A241 is easier to work with, although it is less compatible with newer software. Finder is at least 99 percent stable with that build.

 

[MacPro2006VBox]

[mention]ActionRetro [/mention] [mention]Project Alice [/mention]

Classic environment anyone?

 

[matO_opp_ITA]

9A241 is easier to work with, although it is less compatible with newer software. Finder is at least 99 percent stable with that build.

how did you modified the OSinstall.mpkg? textedit seems unable to read it... And I couldn't find any OSmodelCheck inside it

 

[Amethyst1]

how did you modified the OSinstall.mpkg? textedit seems unable to read it... And I couldn't find any OSmodelCheck inside it

Which build are you trying to modify?

 

[matO_opp_ITA]

Which build are you trying to modify?

The same as you did

 

[ww2_1943]

I swear, there's really something about this place.

Not even twelve days into membership, and our newest member has just written a semi-comprehensive installation guide in just over one hour's time, all from his own initiative. And he's not even done!

@556fmjoe You weren't kidding when you said that this forum makes things happen! You people are some of the most driven individuals I've ever seen!

You too sir are a miracle worker!

 

[MacPro2006VBox]

You too sir are a miracle worker!

Working with [mention]christiann [/mention] has been a great learning experience for me as well. Hope we can get newer builds like 9A321 working too. If not, then we should focus our efforts on 9A241, making it the definitive G3 build. Still can’t figure out why get info on a file or disk crashes Finder on 9A241 though.

 

[christiann]

The same as you did

I'm thinking of posting some modified files for everyone. It'll take a hot minute though.

 

[christiann]

Has anyone tried the newly leaked 9Z1554 build? Here’s the info about it. I think I’m going to download it and try it out. It should work because it’s right between 9A283 and 9A303 which are both working, or should work.

 

[MacPro2006VBox]

Has anyone tried the newly leaked 9Z1554 build? Here’s the info about it. I think I’m going to download it and try it out. It should work because it’s right between 9A283 and 9A303 which are both working, or should work.

Will have to take a look at it.

 

[MacPro2006VBox]

Has anyone tried the newly leaked 9Z1554 build? Here’s the info about it. I think I’m going to download it and try it out. It should work because it’s right between 9A283 and 9A303 which are both working, or should work.

Looks like BaseSystem is borked.

 

[MacPro2006VBox]

Had to use the Unarchiver to extract BaseSystem.pkg because of this.

Also it looks like we can’t edit OSInstall.mpkg like we could for both 9a241 and 9a303.

 

[MacPro2006VBox]

I have installed the new build (9Z1554) on my G3… so far it’s as usable as build 9A241 and can take components from that build.

 

[MacPro2006VBox]

InterwebPPC and Arctic Fox are both working under 9Z1554

 

[MacPro2006VBox]

Here’s Arctic Fox.

 

[christiann]

Here’s Arctic Fox.

Been away for a while… any new updates?

 

[Techsoul]

Had to use the Unarchiver to extract BaseSystem.pkg because of this.

Also it looks like we can’t edit OSInstall.mpkg like we could for both 9a241 and 9a303.

I was able to edit the mpkg contents by showing the OSInstall.mpkg contents and opening OSInstall.dist in textedit.
I'm running Mojave 10.14.6 on a Macbook Pro 8,1

 

[haramia]

Does anyone know if it is possible to theme this release to have the Leopard UI? It'd be nice to have an iMac G3 Snow White next to an eMac with Leopard.