[G4] How & Why to "Bless a System" - 0S 9.2?

[jonny]

Thank you, Eric.  I've got the picture now.

Jonny

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>I've found that if a system folder is valid, it will show up in Startup
>Disk. In the olden days, one might rebuild the desktop file to make a
>system folder bootable. I don't believe it's quite the same now with New
>World ROM Macintoshes, but I may be wrong about that, too.
>
>If you can't get Mac OS X's Startup Disk preference pane to see the
>classic system folder, you can have the classic preference pane rebuild
>the desktop file on the drive. Or so I remember. That should take care
>of it.
>
>If it's not bootable after that, I'd suspect that the system folder in
>question is incomplete. Also, I got a disc full of Mac OS 9 systems for
>various languages, though if someone tries to use something like that,
>it won't be a complete system - those are stripped down for use in the
>Classic environment only.
>
>Eric
>
>On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 09:08 -0700, jonny wrote:
>>  Hello.
>>
>>  I feel like a real newbie to macintosh!  I don't know this term.
>>
>>  Will someone be so kind as to explain what it is to bless a copy of a
>>  OS 9.2 boot system, and how it is done?
>>
>>  Thank you.
>>
>>  Jonny
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