[Ti] What an ordeal

[David Learn]

hehe with all the AOL bashing nobody answered his OS 9 dilemma. When 
you initialize to do an OS X install you have one chance to get this 
part right. Under the erase tab in Disk Utility there is an option to 
install Mac OS 9 Drivers. Without this checked you can not boot from an 
OS 9 install disk and install onto your now OS X only hard drive. I'm 
afraid the only option I have found is to redo the initialization. 
Maybe someone has an easier solution as I have had a few customers do 
this and then stick me with thew complete redo. Good luck.
On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 11:58 AM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List 
wrote:

> From: RRSounds at aol.com
> Subject: [Ti] What an ordeal
> Message-ID: <1A79846B.3D20ED79.007A97C0 at aol.com>
>

> Thanks to Phil at the Genius bar, (and a purchase of an external 
> firewire drive) I was able to salvage my files before wiping my drive 
> and reinstalling OSX.
>
> Almost everything went OK eventually (OSX wouldn't install onto the 
> laptop's drive without re-initializing it).
>
> But when we tried to add in OS9, the DVD would not allow it. The 
> installer claimed that the disc was not the right one for my computer.
>
> Damned if my new pal Phil didn't try five different installation discs 
> for various computers, none of which allowed me to put in OS9. We 
> spent hours (admittedly, mostly moving my 40+ gigs of data back and 
> forth), with no ultimate solution.
>
> I now recall this exact same problem with my own installation discs, 
> when I tried to reinstall OS9 after initializing my drive right after 
> I bought the Titanium. And I had to go to an Apple store to solve it 
> before, but we couldn't find the 'magic' disc that would give me OS9.
>
> So, for the moment I have no OS9 and no Classic environment. Which is 
> not a fatal situation, but inconvenient, as I do have need for a few 
> older programs that I can't access.
>
> There must be some explanation for this.
> Any other Titanium users ever encounter this, and more important, ever 
> find a solution?
>

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