Yeah, sometimes people don't realize what they're throwing out! There's nothing better for me than finding a collectible computer on the side of the road.
@ashthepokemonmaster Wow! How neat, those seem to be really hard to come by nowadays. I remember they used to use those kinds of Macs in some offices in my college (before I became a student there).
You need 4 partitions. 1. Where you want OSX to be 6.5 gb max 2. Bootstrap (XpostFacto calls them 'Helpers' to boot the kernel initially as beige will not boot a CDROM from OF alone sadly. Hence the BootX portion of the app. Make this 500 mb 3. OS9. Copy your OS9 here. I use two HDD's one just as a backup to copy files accross when I repartition the main drive. 4. Big space to use for file storage which will be mountable from OS9 and OSX.
Any windows computer made past the early ninety's should have a 1.44 mb floppy drive. If it is a rare 2.88 mb floppy drive (which are only in IBM PS/2's) it'll say 2.88 mb on the floppy drive eject button.
Oh yeah? I feel your pain, my friend and I spent about 7 hours trying to get it to work one day and we had no luck. It's a shame too, the thing has more RAM than some of my more modern computers. Using it with Mac OS 9 is like using an Intel Core Due @ 3.0 GHz just to run Windows 95.
I've got very similar spec only mine is a sonnet G4 400mhz. I managed to get osx 10.4 on there - I had some issues with xpostfacto not booting the damn install cd/dvd but this was solved by replacing the PRAM battery with a new Maxwell er3s. I also ran into random freezing in osx but put this down to the battery being weak as its stopped doing it since. I haven't tried Leopard and wont bother as tiger is fine as a webserver. (cont.)
@simon1234simon If I used it more often I would, but I hardly ever use this computer. I just set it up to make this video, I'm not even sure if I've used it since!
You might want to remove some of the ram if its freezing on install, thats a known issue. Just leave the one smallest dim in and remove the others and also any extra pci devices installed. Also, I found that having a cheap pci usb hub solved the USB requirement nicely. ;)