I have a first generation tangerine G3 clamshell ibook.
I had MacOS 9.2 installed on it and it was working fine. I decided to sell it and so I ran Dban 2.0 on it to wipe out the hard drive.
After that I tried to reinstall the original MacOS 8.6 software and here is the issue...
The MacOS 8.6 logo appears and it seems like the "desktop", or whatever apple calls it, appears and then it suddenly shuts down.
I reset the PRAM and no go either.
It does not make sense to me as it had been working.
I burned a copy of Ubuntu 7 for powerpcs and run a hardware scan and it came out fine.
I was unable to do a normal install of Ubuntu because i had to download the alternative install since the ibook only has 192MB of RAM...my unix skills are bad so I did not have luck running the debian installer...so i could prove it works.
I would like to buy MacOS 9.x and make sure it works before I sell it. I would think it should work fine but I am puzzled.
Does anyone have any ideas about it? have you experienced something like it?
Suggestions/ideas appreciated.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1835
The MacOS 9.2.2 CD did the trick...I noticed that I had to initialize the hard drive before the install maybe 8.6 was not able to see the hard drive?
No clue - but the point is - it worked!!
