Then, the moment of truth. Would it all work?
BONG! It did! Whoopee!
It booted into Leopard, and I installed a CPU temp utility to make sure the heatsink and grease were functioning properly. When I could see that they were, I pulled out the MDD 2003 CDs I acquired from an obliging friend, dropped in the OS 9 disk, and went to work.
Hmmm. The read me says that the OS9 package on the disk supports Classic only and will not make a bootable system folder. Really?
That doesn't seem right.
Well, I tried of course.
So, the next step is to ascertain exactly which machine the disks I have came with originally. My fear is that they were originally FW800 disks. I have to check with my friend to see. If they ARE June 2003 MDD disks, then I'm curious because they clearly don't support an OS9 boot (regardless of hardware), and the June 2003 MDD was supposed to be OS9 bootable.
If I do have the right disks, my next step will be to try to get ahold of a set of original MDD disks and also to try my 700Mhz eMac disks (I'm going to try that first). If neither of THOSE options work, I'll try to find an ATI eMac set.
I'll keep you posted!
Thoughts? Comments? Advice?
BONG! It did! Whoopee!
It booted into Leopard, and I installed a CPU temp utility to make sure the heatsink and grease were functioning properly. When I could see that they were, I pulled out the MDD 2003 CDs I acquired from an obliging friend, dropped in the OS 9 disk, and went to work.
Hmmm. The read me says that the OS9 package on the disk supports Classic only and will not make a bootable system folder. Really?
That doesn't seem right.
Well, I tried of course.
So, the next step is to ascertain exactly which machine the disks I have came with originally. My fear is that they were originally FW800 disks. I have to check with my friend to see. If they ARE June 2003 MDD disks, then I'm curious because they clearly don't support an OS9 boot (regardless of hardware), and the June 2003 MDD was supposed to be OS9 bootable.
If I do have the right disks, my next step will be to try to get ahold of a set of original MDD disks and also to try my 700Mhz eMac disks (I'm going to try that first). If neither of THOSE options work, I'll try to find an ATI eMac set.
I'll keep you posted!
Thoughts? Comments? Advice?