[Ham-Mac] Upgrade to Tiger

[John E Bastin]

On Sep 12, 2005, at 9:15 AM, kmackey at insightbb.com wrote:

>
> As far as classic being supported, it's not that classic is no longer
> supported, just that OS 9 does not get installed with Tiger.  You  
> will have to
> have an OS 9 cd to install from after you do the Tiger install.  I  
> installed
> my OS 9 on another hard drive, just to keep the two OS's completely
> separated.  I think if you do it on the same hard drive you will  
> have to
> partition the hard drive so you have an OS X and an OS 9 partition.

There's no real need to have OS 9 on a separate partition. We did  
that years ago when Mac OS X was just released, to protect the OS 9  
stuff from beta and early version Mac OS X failures.

Mac OS X is a stable, reliable system now, and worries about  
corruption of OS 9 data are gone. I would put both systems on the  
same partition (and I do), just so you don't wind up with any issues  
of not enough space later because of partition sizes.

Even with a "clean" install, if you have an OS 9 system on the hard  
drive, it will still be there after the Tiger install, and you only  
need to install the Classic UI stuff as I said previously. If you  
actually erase the hard drive and start from scratch, you'll need to  
re-install OS 9. If you're doing it that way, I would install OS 9 on  
the clean hard drive, then install Tiger.

Hope this helps.

73,

John E Bastin, K8AJS
jbastin at sssnet.com
http://www.qsl.net/k8ajs/