As of the posting of this tip, the Mac OS 9 downloads on Apple's support site are not fully available.
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Locate the support.apple.com website for the download. In the case of most of the system downloads for Mac OS 9, there is this link:
The Startup Disk Preference Pane showed the external drive with Mac OS 9 as a valid boot choice. Restart, a few screen flickers later, and voila! Welcome to Mac OS 9.2 appears on the screen. Mission accomplished. I now had a valid boot system for Mac OS 9 on an MDD, along with the disc image.
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In event the link doesn't work, go to http://web.archive.org/ to find it. For this link, the example site is:
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If you are looking for the 9.2.2 download, the direct link from that page is
Clicking through
First on the page you will find North American English, 9.2.2, 21.3MB.
When you right click, or control-mouse button the download link and select copy link, you obtain:
Edit this link to reveal just the file name and not the path going to it and paste it in your favorite search engine. In this case, the file name is:
Mac_OS_9.2.2_Update.smi.bin
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Searching you'll find that this link has that download.
As it happens, the website:
has the download links for all the Mac OS 9 updates and others.
You can use a similar method for many other downloads of older software.
As I also found out, .bin files even Mac OS X 10.9 understands. .smi files Disk utility won't open in Mac OS X 10.9, but it will convert to .dmg files.
If you copy the contents to a USB Flash drive of the same name as the dmg file (without the suffix), it can hold the installer in question and connect older Mac OS 9 machines to run the installer from. Just make sure the USB drive is formatted HFS+ no journaling, or FAT16 and under 4GB in size.
The other thing to note, is that no Mac running Mac OS X 10.3 or higher supports the old style floppy disks of under 1.4 MB. The beige PowerMacs were the last that supported the 800k floppies with the single notch on the the corner. If you have floppies with two notches on either corner of the label, then they are 1.4 MB.
1.4 MB floppy looks like:
400k and 800k floppy look like:
Note how the 800k only has one notch for the write protect tab, and no other opening on the other corner.
The thread I learned about this method isLinks for Mac OS 9 Downloads are faulty!
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Other older knowledgebase links can be found by this tip's methods:
Mac Os Disk Download
Some of the articles linked to for these updates may refer to the old knowledgebase format which may yield links you can convert with archive.org, Teradata sql assistant for mac download.
as described below:
Note: the ii.net mirror that used to be linked to no longer exists.
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First of all, you'll need Roxio's Toast, CharisMac's Discribe or other CD burning software to make a bootable CD, because Apple's Disc Burner can't create bootable CDs. This is a way that can be used with different burning applications (they just have to be able to install the necessary wrapper code to make a volume bootable): *start Disk Copy (usually located in the Utilities-folder), select Image>>>Create new Image. from the menu Mac Os 9 Boot Disk Download For Usb* fill in a name for the CD, make sure that a size of 663,000K (CD-ROM 12cm, full) is selected and 'Mount Image' is checked (checking the 'Zero blocks'-option also is a good idea)*save the image (usually to the desktop) *you can now use a Mac OS installer (your original Mac OS install CD, for example) to install a System Folder to that disc image (once installed, you can also update that system using any [download] updater) and add all applications you want (try to install them whenever possible, because simply copying things over will not always work) *when using Mac OS 9.2.x, remove these files from the System Folder: 'Classic', 'Classic Support' and 'Classic Support UI' *now run those applications on the disk image which require registration (e.g. a serial number) - otherwise they will ask for registration when booted from the CD and therefore might not work *disable any AutoUpdate- / LiveUpdate-features, as the applications on the CD can't be updated anyway once they've been burned *when running applications from the disk image, some applications might create preference files in the System Folder you are currently booted to - in that case, just copy those preference files to the System Folder on the disk image afterwards *now you should remove anything that may have been stored in 'Startup Items' or 'Shutdown Items' inside the disk image's System Folder; you might also want to remove some useless control panels, extensions, etc. and set the Energy Saver control panel to 'never go to sleep'; also set all other preferences/control panels to your preferred settings (once again, you might need to copy files over from the System Folder you're booted to for these changes to take effect) *when finished, burn the CD [when using Toast Titanium, set it to 'Other', select 'Mac Volume', click 'Select', choose the disc image from the menu, select 'bootable' and click 'Record'] - in case you're given the choice, make sure to select 'Mac OS Standard (HFS)' volume format, not 'Mac OS Extended (HFS+)' Useful links: * Mac OS 9.1 updater (updates Mac OS 9.0 - 9.0.4 to 9.1) ![]() * Mac OS 9.2.1 updater (updates Mac OS 9.1 or 9.2 to 9.2.1) * Mac OS 9.2.2 updater (updates Mac OS 9.2.1 to 9.2.2) * Disk First Aid 8.6.1 (in case you use an earlier version) * Movie from Macworld on the subject * How do I make a bootable CD for my Mac using Toast? (Article from Roxio's Knowledge Base) * Bootable CD tips from Symantec (Norton Utilities)
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