[P1] new ibooks... question...

Joost van de Griek joost at jvdg.net
Wed Jul 9 10:18:14 PDT 2003


On 2003-07-09 17:56, Jack Rodgers wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 05:45  AM, Joost van de Griek wrote:
> 
>> Here's what I did:
>> 
>> - Boot up from the Mac OS 9 CD
>> - Choose "Custom Install" in the Mac OS 9 Installer
>> - Deselect everything except "core system"
>> - Let the installer finish
>> 
>> This nets you an OS 9 System Folder that is very, very lean and mean. It
>> won't boot your computer, most likely, but it will be enough to run Classic.
> 
> Did you try opening extension manager and selecting "Apple's basic
> extension set or whatever it is called"? This disables everything but
> just that. You can re-enable the others when you boot into 9.

"Apple's basic extension set or whatever it is called" contains video
drivers, network drivers, networking code, and all sorts of other stuff that
Classic doesn't need, because those tasks are handled by OS X.

Also, when you do a normal install of OS 9, lots of stuff is added to the
System suitcase, which is unnecessary when you just want to use Classic.
Takes up RAM, slows down start-up, and lessens Classic's performance.

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