[X Newbies] upgrading

[J]

On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 03:45  PM, John Lowther wrote:

> so, i insert  the other CD (os 9.2.1) and double click the update OS i 
> get the following message
> "Classic startup found no system folder on the boot volume from which 
> to start Classic. " then it tells me that i can open classic 
> preferences and search for available folders, if i try that, i get 
> three options all grayed over so that i cannot select any of them 
> (they are G3, MS office X, and Mac OS 9.2.1. Update)....

Did you boot from the CD or just insert it? It sounds like you have X 
in there without any 9 folder, and are not booting with the CD. Classic 
tries to start because you are in X trying to run a 9 installer I would 
imagine.... I am not sure what is going on.

> just for kicks i tried to start Classic from the start button here.

Which start button???

>   the icon appears ion the dock, the classic desktop window begins to 
> start running the blue meter  begins moving to the right and nevver 
> gets there, sometimes it gets close, but never actually opens, just at 
> the crux it flashes a box which says "Kodac, color processor version" 
> but this closes immediately and then the os9 icon disappears and i'm 
> back where i started.
>
> i wondered whether classic will not  start because (as i understood 
> it) classic = os 9.2 not the 9.1 i have installed here.

If you have both on the drive, but the drive is partitioned I think X 
has to be on the first 8 gigs, I am not sure about that model, but 
others would know this.

> the first step of florin's advice was to reinstall the OS X.  ... i am 
> doing that now, although i don't suspect  that it will fix the classic 
> problem.