[X4U] OS 9 on a G5?

[John Baltutis]

On 05/15/05,  Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote:
>
> An hospital which has a G4 with OS 9 on it with software running in 9
> will replace it with a G5.  Is it possible to install OS 9 afterwards?
> Or is a Mac Mini or eMac still with OS 9 because it's a G4?

The G5 will come with Classic, just not a bootable OS 9. For all intents
and purposes, that works fine. The best thing for them to do is hook up the
G4 to the G5 in target disk mode and copy over any OS 9 application
specific components to the G5. Another option, is to partition a G5 disk
into multiple partitions and copy the G4 OS 9 disk to it, restore the G5
installation onto the other partition, and then select the old OS 9 for the
classic startup.