[muglo] Re: Installing firmware in OS 9
- From: Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 18:24:48 -0500
Hmm. Since they have an iMac G3 they have an OS 8, 8.5, or 9 startup disk.
1. They should place the FirmWare update in a place where they can
find it on their hard drive.
2. Insert OS 8/9 installer CD into CD-ROM.
3. Restart computer whilst holding down the c key, or, select the CD
from within the Startup Disk preferences pane.
4. Run FirmWare updater.
If they want to disable the password in OS 9 they will have to go into
their Extensions folder and disable the appropriate extensions/control
panels or find the right preferences file and delete it. Unfortunately
it's been so long since I've used OS 9 (and I never used the password
feature since it's quite unstable) so I can't remember (off the top of
my head) how to disable passwords.
And, no passwords are not the same between OS 9 and X. OS 9's password
protection was a complete *joke*. I could disable it with about two
minutes of effort (most of that time spent waiting for the system to
reboot ;). OS X's password protection can be circumvented but it's not
quite as easy, especially if encrypted homes are used (I hope... I
don't know if you can lose your encrypted home directory if you forget
your password... I hope *so* because otherwise encrypted home is
worthless... just pop in an OS X boot CD and you can reset the
password).
Eric.
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:44:11 -0500, Lee Dickey <Lee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am having some trouble and need some help.
>
> I have some friends who want to upgrade their iMac from 10.2 to 10.3.
> They have an iMac 400 (slot type) running 10.2.8. To make the upgrade
> to 10.3, they need to install firmware 4.1.9.
> The instructions are to startup from OS 9.2.2. They have this,
> and they have used 9.2.2 to run some applications in the past.
> However they have never started up from 9.2.2 since they moved
> to OS 10. They have changed their passwords in OS 10, but when
> trying to startup from 9.2.2, they are asked for a password which
> is now long forgotten. OS9 apparently does not inherit password
> changes that have been made in OS X !
>
> Any other suggestions, please?
>
> Lee
>
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