Okay, so I've had a lot of requests from people wanting to know how to install OS 9 on an old computer.
I would like to go ahead and point out, if you have come to this video from the Internet
looking for information on how to install
OS 10 or any operating system on a Mac computer and
if your computer is even in the least bit modern, such as made after, I don't know,
1999 or newer, this is probably not the video for you!
This is for the older OS 9 that was used up until around 1999, 2000; nobody uses it anymore.
The only people who would want it are for people who want to use some of the really old software, so
Just wanted to keep that in mind, don't waste your time watching this!
Alright. Onto the show!
OK, so to get started, you'll need your OS 9 install disks. If you don't have one and need to know where to get one,
then wait until the end of the video.
So put your OS 9 CD in the optical drive hold down the [C] key and power on the computer.
It's important that you continue to hold the [C] key down until you see the operating system starting up.
Expect to sit here on this screen for a while..
Eventually you'll get this screen, and continue to wait for some more.
I mean quite a while! Go make yourself a snack or a cup of coffee or something.
Eventually you should get to your desktop.
Don't be tempted to click this "MacOS Install" icon.
Instead,
scroll down and open up the Utilities, and eventually, "Drive Setup."
OK, you'll see two drives listed. One is the actual
OS 9 CD-ROM. The other one is listed as "" because it's never been initialized, since this is a brand new drive.
In this case go ahead and click the hard drive, and then "Initialize."
It won't take very long, and you'll see the new drive is called "untitled."
So, close the drive setup program.
You'll see the new drive mounted on the desktop.
I'll go ahead and rename mine now to "iBook HD" as that sounds better than untitled.
OK, now you can close that folder and scroll back up to find the MacOS Install icon. The install is pretty straightforward.
First you select the disc, which in this case, we only have one to pick from.
Then there'll be a lot of clicking "Continue" and agreeing to terms, et cetera.
Eventually, you can start the install. This will take a few minutes, probably even longer than it took to boot from the CD!
Okay, so we're just about done now and of all of the bizarre questions,
it will ask you if you want to continue or quit! Well, actually, you want to quit.
Then go on to the top menu and select "Special," and then "Restart."
This time it will be booting from the hard drive and things should go much faster.
Okay, I'm going to go ahead and plug in a network cable and see if I can connect to my modern OS 10 file server
using this old OS 9.
So click the Apple, then "Control Panels," then "TCP/IP."
I'm going to select "Ethernet built in" because that's how I'm connecting. You should get an IP address from a DHCP server.
I know my network and I recognize this configuration as being valid for my network.
OK, next thing to do is click on the Apple icon and select "Chooser."
Click "Apple Share" and then enter the server address. In this case, I'm putting the IP address of my file server.
I'll need to change the username to mine and put in my password.
And I already know it's working because I've been given a list of volumes that I can mount. I'll check the ones
I want and then click OK.
After a few seconds the volumes are mounted and show up on my desktop.
Browsing the web on OS 9 is an exercise in frustration and futility!
It has Internet Explorer, but it's so old it won't render anything besides the most basic of websites.
You can use it to download Classilla, but you'll even find it as severely outdated and will not render
most websites correctly. If you try to open a website like Facebook it will give you a mobile version of the website.
But now I can install and play Lemmings!
Alright, well, I hope you're able to follow the install video.
I would like to point out a couple things. A lot of people always email me and ask me where can I buy...
these old CD'S for...
you know, OS 9, or even OS 10 for that matter, and they wonder if they can buy them for me, and of course, I..
don't have anywhere that I can get them. The only place I can get them is buying them on eBay or Craigslist,
and you know, sometimes I get them with some old computers that come in with, you know, the business I was running sometimes but,
ultimately,
When people ask me the question, the answer is always the same: you need to go to eBay or Craigslist
if you want to buy a copy of software.
It's not very expensive because it's old and not very many people want it. You can usually pick it up for a few bucks.
I would also point out it is typically possible to download the software
from a BitTorrent site now.
Ethically speaking, I'm really OK with that because
Apple doesn't sell this software anymore!
They haven't sold it in like 13 years or some, you know, astronomical number like that.
So. you're not really hurting their bottom line by downloading really obsolete software they don't sell anymore..
But the reason I often don't recommend
Downloading from BitTorrent site is because the next question that always follows is:
"Will which site should I get it from?" And, of course, they go up and down all the time and there's no guarantee this any..
site that I name today will even exist..
two weeks from now, and
even if it did then, that very next question that will follow is, well, "How do I download a BitTorrent?"
"What Torrent software do I need and then how do I burn the CD?"
"What software or anything do I need to burn the CD?"
"What if I want to burn the CD on a Windows computer?" and blah blah blah. And so it just goes on and on and...
so I usually just try to avoid even talking about the whole...
burning of the CD's.
If that's something you wanted to know, there are probably plenty of websites that will explain how to do that.
You can go Google for that.
But just please don't email me asking me how to do it, because I don't have
two hours to write a dissertation on how has to be done!
But, so, anyway, that's basically the three ways that you can get the CD!
You can, you can buy it online like eBay or you can find somebody local on Craigslist..
who's got one, or you can download it and burn it.
Take your pick anyway. Hope you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and I got an OS 10 install video coming up next!
{Captions by Sam Decker (HyperSlime64)}