[Ham-Mac] Upgrade to Tiger

[Steve Byan]

On Sep 12, 2005, at 10:37 AM, John E Bastin wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.

I've installed OS 9 after installing Tiger and it works fine. You need 
to boot from the CD, as attempting to install while running OS X 
results in OS X trying to start Classic using the System Folder on the 
OS 9 install CD, and it fails as it cannot install the OS X extensions 
in the System Folder on the read-only CD.

After reboot from the CD (hold down the "C" key during boot), start up 
the installer. It'll show the existing system as 10.4 and complain that 
it can't upgrade that system to 9.2, but it will offer to do a "clean 
install". That sounded a bit scary to me, but it turns out that a clean 
install does not touch the OS X system installation; it merely installs 
a clean OS 9 System Folder. What's '"clean" about the install is that 
the OS 9 installer isn't able to carry your preferences and third-party 
extensions over from the existing system folder (i.e OS X). So go ahead 
an click the "Clean Install" button.

Installer will ask if you want to update the drivers on the 
installation disk to the latest OS 9 driver. I elected to not upgrade 
the drivers :-)

If your hardware is too new to boot from an OS 9 install CD, and the 
software restore CD's for your hardware don't install OS 9, then I 
guess you're out of luck as far as installing Classic. Maybe one could 
install it on an external firewire drive using supported hardware, and 
then perform the install using classic on the firewire disk?

Regards,
-Steve
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Steve Byan <stevebyan at mac.com>
Littleton, MA