But when I boot the PowerBook with the drive hooked up I just get the blinking folder icon. Then I formatted the physical drive with an Apple Partition Map and the partition as HFS Extended Journaled, then I mounted the drive and copied (dragged over) the files and System Folder from the newly-installed disk image. I tried creating a new 512 MB disk from SheepShaver and running the Mac OS 9.2 Universal Installer to install OS9 on it. SheepShaver cannot use physical media, so I cannot connect the disk to SheepShaver and run the Mac OS 9 installer on it.It has a 20 GB 2.5' IDE drive and I have a USB to IDE adapter, so I can connect the drive to the MacBook with Mac OS X.The PowerBook originally had Linux or BSD on it or something, so a full reformat is needed.I tried using BootMania but it won't let me create an image from any of the Mac OS 9 install disk images I have. It has Ethernet, and I have a recent MacBook with an Ethernet dongle, but everything I've read about NetBooting and NetInstalling seems difficult and unapproachable.Apparently the PowerBook G3 Pismo and Lombard variants cannot boot from a USB stick.The PowerBook doesn't have a CD-ROM, just a plastic spacer.There are games that simply don't perform well with SheepShaver, plus networking with SheepShaver isn't reliable with Classic multiplayer games. I have a PowerBook G3 from 2000 or so and would like to put Mac OS 9 on it for nostalgia reasons.
