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As of the posting of this tip, the Mac OS 9 downloads on Apple's support site are not fully available.
This tip of a method of obtaining the downloads was suggested by sdfox7. Special thanks to them for decoding
How To Update Mac OS 9 to 9.2.2 by Richard Vincenti Jr 1 Comment Okay, this may sound simple enough but if you don’t have the updates on disc somewhere then it can be next to impossible to find the update files for Mac OS 9. Install mac OS 9 with the CD 'Mac OS 9.2.2 Universal Install'. News: The Mac OS 9 Lives Forum is dedicated to. Installing, Maintaining, and Extending the functionality of Mac OS 9. I have a CD with the 'Mac OS 9.2.2 Universal Install'. I've already used it to install mac OS 9 on a PowerMac G4 QuickSilver.
how to discover old downloads.
Locate the support.apple.com website for the download. In the case of most of the system downloads for Mac OS 9, there is this link:
![Dmg Dmg](/uploads/1/3/3/8/133897928/867941984.png)
and
In event the link doesn't work, go to http://web.archive.org/ to find it. For this link, the example site is:
If you are looking for the 9.2.2 download, the direct link from that page is Free mac cache cleaner.
Clicking through
First on the page you will find North American English, 9.2.2, 21.3MB.
When you right click, or control-mouse button the download link and select copy link, you obtain:
Edit this link to reveal just the file name and not the path going to it and paste it in your favorite search engine. In this case, the file name is:
Mac_OS_9.2.2_Update.smi.bin
Searching you'll find that this link has that download.
As it happens, the website:
has the download links for all the Mac OS 9 updates and others.
You can use a similar method for many other downloads of older software.
As I also found out, .bin files even Mac OS X 10.9 understands. .smi files Disk utility won't open in Mac OS X 10.9, but it will convert to .dmg files.
If you copy the contents to a USB Flash drive of the same name as the dmg file (without the suffix), it can hold the installer in question and connect older Mac OS 9 machines to run the installer from. Just make sure the USB drive is formatted HFS+ no journaling, or FAT16 and under 4GB in size. https://newtree224.weebly.com/storage-cleaner-for-mac-1095.html.
The other thing to note, is that no Mac running Mac OS X 10.3 or higher supports the old style floppy disks of under 1.4 MB. The beige PowerMacs were the last that supported the 800k floppies with the single notch on the the corner. If you have floppies with two notches on either corner of the label, then they are 1.4 MB.
1.4 MB floppy looks like:
400k and 800k floppy look like:
Note how the 800k only has one notch for the write protect tab, and no other opening on the other corner.
The thread I learned about this method isLinks for Mac OS 9 Downloads are faulty!
Other older knowledgebase links can be found by this tip's methods:
Some of the articles linked to for these updates may refer to the old knowledgebase format which may yield links you can convert with archive.org,
as described below:
Note: the ii.net mirror that used to be linked to no longer exists. Mac office download.
MacOS 9/Classic Support Q&A - Revised October 27, 2007
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Where can you purchase MacOS 9?
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From time-to-time MacOS 9 install CD-ROMs also will appear for sale on a variety of online auction sites as well from vendors of varying quality.
Where can you download software updates for MacOS 9?
Apple's Knowledge Base provides a handy summary of the available updates for MacOS 9. Of particular interest, this support document notes that you 'must install all prerequisite software before installing any update'.
For example, to update a Mac with MacOS 9.0 to MacOS 9.2.2, you must download and install updates in this order:
Pre-G3 based Macs that are capable of booting MacOS 9 only officially support MacOS 9.1 although hacks are available that make it possible to install MacOS 9.2.2 on some with pre-'NewWorld' ROMs. Apple recommends that you install the last version that your Mac will officially support.
Other Apple Knowledge Base articles also note that there are some differences between the downloadable update of MacOS 9.1 and the MacOS 9.1 install CD and that MacOS 9.2.2 provides improved compatiblity with MacOS X.
How do you install the MacOS 9 'Classic Environment' on a PowerPC-based Mac?
Apple's Knowledge Base provides brief instructions on how to 'Install MacOS 9 to use Classic Applications' on PowerPC-based Macs that did not ship with the MacOS 9 'Classic Environment' pre-installed. Please note that the 'Classic Environment' is not supported on PowerPC-based Macs running MacOS X 10.5 'Leopard.'
Mac Os 9.2 2 Universal Install Dmg Download
For other scenarios, the process of installing the MacOS 9 'Classic Environment' or a 'bootable' MacOS 9 'over' a current MacOS X installation may be a bit more involved. An archived blog posting from the now defunct MacFixIt blog has detailed tips and instructions that you may find to be useful.
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