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Hey folks! So, I plan to populate all four drive connections inside my G4. One has OSX, which came with it, one has OS9 which I recently installed. A third will be additional storage. The fourth? Well, after watching some of Action Retro's videos, I'm trying to figure out what Linux GUI I'd...

I wanted to thank both Steve Matarazzo (Mac84) and Sean (Action Retro) for their help in upgrading my G4 mirror door Mac. I was able to add an SSD (I watched Sean's videos and used the adapter he mentioned), and Steve helped me out with some equipment and advice on how to make this upgrade...

I got it figured out. Thanks, everyone! :D

The bridge I'm using here was recommended by Sean (Action Retro) in one of his videos. However...I don't know if anyone has tried using it in this fashion before, using two separate boot devices-a mechanical HD (the original drive that came with this G4, that has OSX) and the SSD that I would...

In the end, I want the option to be able to boot into either the OS9 or OSX drive. It's frustrating that I got this far, but I haven't been able to install OS9. The original thread is here...

Hey folks! Okay, I cleaned the inside of the G4 a bit, put new thermal paste on the processor and added the SSD, partitioning it.. I found that in order to try and install OS9 on the SSD, the original OSX HD had to be in there as well. Downloaded the OS9 drivers from this link...

A little info on my G4.. .

This G4 mirror door is a nice machine-and it's the only classic Mac I plan to hold onto. I just want to use it for data storage.

I assume that, once I install an SSD, I should be able to install OS9 onto it, yes? I'm thinking about getting a 250 GB SSD. This SSD will only be used to back up data from the old SCSI drives; I plan on putting nothing else there.

I should have clarified earlier-the internal drive only has OSX.

Here ya go.

How can I find out?

Thanks for the response! :) The original drive that came with this Mac already has OSX and a number of files on it-I don't want to touch that drive. The SSD will likely be a SATA drive, and I will only be using it to back up files from the old SCSI drives I have lying around. That's why I want...

Hey folks! This is the first time I'm trying something like this. This will be a second boot up drive that will just have OS9. Reason? I'm recovering files from hard drives that were in beige Macs, and I want to be able to save them to this SSD and perhaps transfer them onto USB sticks. I want...

Hello! The PRAM battery in it is relatively new, as I replaced it a number of years ago. I do have eventual plans for this machine, but I'm a bit swamped at the moment.

Thanks Yoda & akator! I was told I could try an old version of OpenEmu. I have a 2011 27" iMac (which I'm on now) and I would love to run these same games on here. It uses Yosemite.

Hey folks! I'm a newbie to this board, but I've been using Macs since 1988, when I started taking classes at the School Of Visual Arts in NYC I booted up my G4 mirror door Mac for the first time in 5, possibly 6, years. It’s been in storage since I moved in 2019. I have arcade files on...