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From: Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.vintage
Subject: Re: Installing OS9 to G4 MDD 1.25Ghz
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:23:04 +1300
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On 2024-10-12 05:12:03 +0000, scole said:
> In article <vdpn42$ce1q$1@dont-email.me>, Your Name
> <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The machine-specific install discs are those that ship with the
>> computer, but there are also machine-independent retail discs for those
>> upgrading their existing computers version of Mac OS.
> 
> Not for OS9 for this MDD, or so I've read on the web anywhere I've
> looked; all the info I've found is that the only official release of
> 9.2.2 that's right for this machine is in the .dmg on one of the
> set-of-4 install CDs that shipped with it.
> 
> And even that image isn't an actual bootable installer, it's more like
> a hard disk back-up image and the intent is to use Disk Utility in OSX
> to "restore" the back-up to a partition and that's how you get OS9 onto
> the G4 MDD 1.25Ghz. I was hoping that some bright spark might have
> hacked a bootable version of it I could burn to CD, but I didn't find
> such a thing when I was looking recently.

You may well be right about 9.2.2 specifically, since that is a minor 
update. The retail CD would likely have been 9.2 and then you're meant 
to use updaters.

I'm not sure about that particular model. It's possible that it wasn't 
designed to boot in MacOS 9, so the "installer" is only for installing 
the Classic environment to use under MacOS X to run older programs.

You could try one of these custom-made bootable installers (the second 
one is a newer version):
<https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-922-universal>
<https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-922-universal-install-2014>