I just bought an iMac 400Mhz on eBay and It has OS 9.2 on it. Eventually I want to upgrade to Panther, and thus brings me here.
Is it possible to use OSX 10.3.4 disc's that came with another mac? (Came with a G5) Or do I need to buy an OSX install CD?
Thanks in advance for any helpful replies.
P.S. I know about the firmware issue.
It is sometimes possible, though illegal.
Yay for Organgrinder010, who wants to stay legal! 
IMO License agreements are unnecessarily harsh with this. Don't go throwing it around, but if you bought it, you may use it. However, I KNOW that many lawyers would disagree, so I'm not responsible for anything that may or may not happen...
-NC
Even if it wasn't legal I wouldn't even try to run Panther on a computer that only has 400mhz cpu. Personally what's the point?
Even if it wasn't legal I wouldn't even try to run Panther on a computer that only has 400mhz cpu. Personally what's the point?
Actually, I used to run panther on a 400MHz iMac. So long as you have at least 512MB RAM, it's pretty snappy.
i've got panther running just fine on my 400mhz/192mb imac. i surely won't win the 'fastest pc of the year' award, but it's totally usable.
I've put OS X on a G3 and a 433 iMac and its well worth doing!
I ran Panther on my G3 iBook (500Mhz) and it worked just fine.
Just load up on ram and you'll be good to go.
Wow I knew somebody that tried it on their 500 mhz old imac and it didn't work guess they didn't have enough ram.
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