Shut down the modern Mac.ĥ) Make sure the old Mac is shut down. iso file onto the borrowed hard drive's first partition (should be the 9GB one). It's an absolute necessity for any old computer collector or enthousiast, trust me it's well worth it and it will allow your G3 or G4 to use SATA drives such as SSD and even NVMe or M.2 if you chain yet another M.2 to SATA adapter board.ġ) Connect the borrowed hard drive to your modern Mac and power it on.ģ) Partition the borrowed hard drive into 2 partitions: make the first partition as 9GB HFS+ and the second partition as the rest of the drive.Ĥ) Use Disk Utility to restore the.
It's cute, it's small, it fits right in your pocket and it's only 3$. In this case, you should totally get one of those IDE to SATA adapter board.
If you have a G3 or a G4, then it may not have a SATA port. Note that it will be fully erased, so make sure nothing important is on it before you start. A hard drive of any size will do, as you typically only need 9GB of space for the whole process.
You will need a common SATA hard drive that you can temporarily borrow for an hour. Here's one last resort way you can boot your old Mac without a DVD drive or even an USB drive :P dmg) and would like to boot your PowerPC (G3, G4, G5) from it in order to install OSX, but unfortunately, the DVD drive on your old Mac is broken, missing or you're simply out of DVD discs? You instead went ahead and proceeded to boot your PowerPC Mac from an USB stick but it didn't work because the old Mac's USB ports are broken or the Open Firmware command fails for some cryptic reason? Don't have FireWire either? No problem.
So you got a Mac OS X installer disk image (.iso.
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