Awesome! I managed to mount Fireball, my iMac's hard drive, on the LC III!

does the hard drive appear on the desktop as recognized?

nope. no os on it yet.

Wait, so does the Macintosh LC III work fine now? :O

nevermind. it started up finaly

file sharing won't start up. it has been sitting at the "File sharing is starting up..." screen for 15 minutes. this is a clean OS 9 install.

Just try setting up file sharing on the hard drive then.

Yup. but the floppy has no unnecisary stuff!

Just try copying the "Apple Ethernet LC" extension onto the floppy. If that doesn't fit, try cutting out some of the unnecessary stuff. BTW, more hard drives: http://cgi.ebay.com…

How long does file sharing usualy take to startup on OS 9?

Um... the ethernet card needs no extra drivers! It saw my iMac in the chooser, but doesn't recognise that i enabled guest login, as i have no ADB keyboard i can't connect. Click…

Um... the ethernet card needs no extra drivers! It saw my iMac in the chooser, but doesn't recognise that i enabled guest login, as i have no ADB keyboard i can't connect. Click…

Um... the ethernet card needs no extra drivers! It saw my iMac in the chooser, but doesn't recognise that i enabled guest login, as i have no ADB keyboard i can't connect.

Make sure you have the appropriate network extension installed! Since your Ethernet card is an Apple one, you just need the Apple Ethernet LC extension which can be found here.

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OK... i have OS 9.2.2 running on my imac. how can i get the iMac to appear in the chooser of the LC III, or connect to the iMac? I am running the 7.5 Network Access Disk.

not the CD, but the harddrive.

Holding Option down, does it show the disc?

Oops... OS9 drivers...

I have never seen a Clearance Center. They operate "Clothing Stores" and stores called "ComputerWorks" around here, but there may be a large repository of donated items that isn't…

I can only assume that the drive doesn't have the Mac OS 9 drivers installed (usually an option when installing OS X on a drive or preparing it through DU). Have you tried zapping…

the cd/dvd drive works fine. when i boot from 9.0.4, it doesn't boot and just starts X

Here's the download for MIDIgraphy from Harmony Central: http://www.harmony-central.com/Software/Mac/midigraphy.html

Update: Installed a lean version of 7.5.3, now to replace those leaky gross caps on the logic board. Bleh.

Does your DVD/CD Drive work in OS X? That may have bit the bucket, or your install media.