need imac advice (my opinion)
Kurt Appling
wappling at tampabay.rr.com
Sun May 4 21:05:15 PDT 2003
>> RE; Hi my opinion. congrats on your new baby, also just use it as is
>> until you become familiar with how different it is from what you were
>> useing,you can always partition it later after you have made enough
>> learning mistakes,Im not sure how your OS discs came packaged, but if
>> you dont see it mentioned, when you reload it install OS9 first then
>> OSX,afterwhich it will automaticaly boot into OSX and then startup
>> OS9. when you open system prefs clickon the startup disc Icon and
>> there you can change it to your choice as you wish.
best wishes
>> I am sitting here proudly beaming at my new iMac! Love that 17" flat
>> panel
>> screen!!!! I did buy the one that boots into 0s 9 and Os 10. Thank
>> you one
>> and all for your helpful comments, suggestions and opinions. This has
>> been a
>> wonderful and enlightening discussion from people that I trust.
>>
>> I wish the hard drive had been partitioned for each OS, but I am
>> reluctant
>> to go through all the hassle of reformatting and reinstalling,
>> especially
>> the reinstalling!
>>
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