[G4] Installing Tiger

[Harry Freeman]

Greetings ( + )!( + )

I guess some of us just don't worry about it, as I have on my 120Gb 
main drive, a copy of OSX 10.3.9, a copy of OS 9.2.2, a copy of OS 
9.2.1, and a copy of OS 9.0 and I suffer no Ill effects. If I want to 
boot into something other than OSX 10.3.9 I simply go to "System 
Preferences" select "Startup Drive" and then select the Drive/Folder 
that I would like to boot from, then select reboot.

I assume that one of those versions of OS 9.X.X is used by OSX when I 
request the "Classic" mode of operation, and have never had any 
problems, and I have been using OSX now for 4 Years.
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On Dec 16, 2006, at 10:24 PM, Tony Johansen wrote:

> On 17/12/2006 9:18 AM, "Les Berkley" <wogears at fast.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> G4 Sawtooth 400. I have three partitions on my current HD. The boot
>> partition (10.3.9) is 10GB, of which 5.5 are used. There is also a 
>> 9.2.2
>> partition, which is bootable, and used for Classic.
>
> As O'Brien says, yes you will be able to do as you wish. I am just 
> adding
> that you seem to have a misunderstanding of Classic. Classic is OS 9 
> run
> from within Panther. It is located on your 10.3.9 partition and would 
> still
> be there as usual even if there is no other partition on your HD. The 
> OS 9
> operates on top of the already operating OS X. It can be found on your 
> HD in
> a folder called 'Systems Folder' and has a '9' on the folder icon, 
> whereas
> the folder for OS X is in a folder called simply 'System' and has an 
> 'X' on
> the folder.
>
> Many people, however, such as myself, and apparently you as well, have 
> a
> separate partition with OS 9.2 installed on it. This is independent of 
> the
> other partition and is bootable. The only connection from this OS 9
> partition to the Panther side is via a shared folder, often called a 
> Drop
> Box, or other network options.
>
> On the other hand, Panther is capable of utilizing the OS 9 partition 
> as if
> it was just another partition for storing files, but it cannot operate 
> the
> OS 9 applications that are there. Panther can only operate the OS 9 
> apps
> indirectly by allowing the Classic environment within itself. Because 
> it is
> a long long time since I have had need to use an OS 9 app (I have 
> Quark over
> there, but don't use Quark anymore) and I find OS 9 to be generally an
> unpleasant experience these days and very frustrating to use compared 
> to
> Panther, that I just use the OS 9 partition for my iTunes Library. 
> iTunes
> and iPhoto work fine with their Library's on another partition 
> including one
> with OS 9 on it, as they do on any external drive.
>
> The only advantage to having a separate OS 9 partition is that 
> sometimes
> there can be some apps in the Classic environment that have some 
> troubles,
> such as accessing a printer. Apart from that it suits some people to 
> have a
> familiar full OS 9 environment because they like it. If I had my time 
> over I
> would have simply installed OS X and not bothered with the OS 9 
> partition.
> It is largely useless.
>
> Tony
> http://www.tonyjohansen.com
> A Life Of Art
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