IMG hard drive image made with SheepShaver. ISO CD image from a real Mac OS CD dumped with PowerISO and even a. TOAST CD image made with Roxio Toast under Mac OS 9, a. Using this software, I successfully booted my DV+ G3 iMac from summer 2000 from a. You can also achieve what's described in this article under Mac OS X using the Terminal. I'll demonstrate how to 'burn' various bootable Mac OS 9 CD images (but you could use this tutorial for any Mac OS version really) onto an USB stick using the free, simple and super useful HDD Raw Copy Tool under Windows. It will let you achieve this task in a matter of seconds, super easily using a normal Windows PC.

If you're a collector or hobbyist and got a G3 or G4 and would like to install Mac OS 8, 9 or Mac OS X on it but that the CD/DVD drive is broken, here's a complete guide that will prove to be useful to you. PowerPC Macs such as G3's and G4's can boot off of USB sticks, even if this functionality has been buried so deep in technical details that almost nobody knew about it until nobody used G3's anymore.

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