Input of simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, and Korean was only included with the 2Z CDs. The difference in the two lay in the extent of multilingual support. With Mac OS X 10.0.0 began a short era (that practically ended with Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar's release) where Apple offered two types of installation CDs: 1Z and 2Z CDs. Other features present in OS 9 but lacking in OS X 10.0 were eventually delivered with successive system updates.

It is the visual interface theme of the Mac OS X operating system. It is a virtual address book for the Mac. The Mail application is a way to receive and send emails. The Dock was a brand new way to organize OS X's applications. Mac OS X 10.0 contained the following features: It has been reported in these forums that OSX 10.3 runs better on slower Macs than does OSX 10.2.Mac OS X 10.0, and all updates in the 10.0.x series lacked in some features (notably DVD support) but was usable and stable. Your machine can use any version of OSX up through OSX 10.3 (Panther) it can not use OSX 10.4 (Tiger). The first real viable release of OSX was OSX 10.1, specifically 10.1.5. It was not released as a fully developed OS, rather as one ready for general testing by the public. The installers for OSX do check to see if there the destination volume is within the first 8GB on certain models, and if it is not, will not allow installation to proceed. The OS 9 installers do not check for that, and when OS 9 was installed, especially if it was on a fresh drive, it may have ended up within the first 8GB. If the drive is larger than that, such as yours is, the only way to make that happen is to partition the drive so that the first partition, the one to be used for OS installation, is a bit less than 8GB (usually around 7.7GB).Īrticle #25249 - Gray or White Screen After Hard Drive UpgradeĪrticle #106235 - OSX: Disk Appears 'Grayed Out' in Installer Your model iMac is subject to the 8GB restriction on installing OS's - all OS's, including both OS 9 and OSX, must be installed within the first 8GB on the drive. Increasing the RAM on your machine is a good idea, even if you do not install OSX. 256MB RAM is a more realistic minimum more is better.

Before going any further with the install of OSX, make sure that you have updated the firmware on that machine.Īlthough 128MB of RAM meets the basic requirements for OSX, it is minimal - especially if you will be using Classic under OSX.

Mac os 9.2.2 to mac os x 10.0