[G4] Installing OS 9.2.2 on Mirror Door - Second HD

jonny g4 at salemoregon.com
Thu Sep 20 18:59:25 PDT 2007


Thank you for giving me an approach to getting 9.2.2 onto the second 
hard drive, Ben.  I can do that.

BTW, I'm running OSX 3.9

How do I "bless a system"?  A new term to me.

Thanks.

Jonny

>>Before I plunge into this, is anyone with MDD experience able to 
>>confim the procedure of getting OS 9.2.2 properly installed on that 
>>drive, and perhaps alert me to pitfalls that might be encountered?
>
>I have a MDD and have had similar problems with 9.2.2, As far as I 
>am aware the easiest way is to use the restore disks to install 
>9.2.2 on the boot drive (the one that already has X on it) and then 
>copy it over to your second drive (as the disks are expecting you to 
>be installing it as "Classic Support"), however if you are running 
>10.4 then you will need the updated restore utility from Apple, see:
>http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301468
>for the updated utility.
>don't bother trying to use retail 9.2.2 disks as they don't work 
>with the MDD (there are several files that the MDD requires that 
>post-date the release of 9.2.2 and are only included on the cd's 
>supplied with the machine).
>The only pitfall I can see is that you may need to re bless the 
>system folder after copying it over, however I found it worked OK on 
>mine and I can boot either 10.4.10 / 10.5(Beta) / 9.2.2.
>Ben.
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