I have a powerpc 6500/225. I just got it and it needs a hdd. I have a 6 gig seagate that I have put in. I do not have an OS disk that will work with this machine (I have a 9.2 and a 9.0 care plan). everything I have read suggests that I can install OS 7.5.3 (which I have dloaded). How do I go from files on pc to running powerpc? I have read the suggestions in here about the differnt stuff you need to make it happen. I have dloaded and succesfully created the network access 7.5 boot disk which my powerpc says is the wrong version to for this machine (I dont know if it is becasue I have set up the hdd with the utility on the care plan cd) The os 9.2 says it will not go on this machine. I have tried to creat the drive setup disks (1.3 1.7 and maybe a couple others). but cant get windows to creat the image. This is my first Mac. I am not having fun yet. please help me help my Mac smile. thanks for your help Carl

Power Macintosh 6500/225 specs: Specs how is the drive formatted?... if by using os9, may be formatted with HFS(+), if so, os 7~8 programs wont see drive, only HFS,if you choose to format for older OS operating systems, may be difficult to reformat to HFS+ later for OS9,check with utility disk to check type of format, also may need to update firmware/drivers for drive, should be able to put os8.** + os9.0 , but not higher,... 6B 69 6C 72 6F 79 20 77 61 73 20 68 65 72 65

Funny that, over the years i've collected every version of 6, 7, 8 and 9. and i still have the probs you have. The definitive way round this is to buy a standard copy of the 9.1 installer CD. this is ground zero. with this you WILL install 9.1 which was the last version that could run on this machine. Boot from the CD, erase the disk, create a clean new partition (HFS or HFS +) then start the install. http://www.mactracker.ca/ is your bible for finding out what you can and can't do with this machine. (er, chuck it in the skip and get at least a G3 or G4) Your 6500 hardware will now be so old that it just isn't worth chasing faulty optical drives that can't read newly burnt CDs (forget DVDs, they didn't exist when the 6500 came out...)