[G4] OSX and OS 9

[John Wilson]

Hi Kevin (and others). Your backup scheme is flawed in a couple of 
ways. One, if your hard drive goes south, you've lost everything, all 
three partitions. Two, if you're just dragging your home folder to the 
20 gig partition, you're probably not getting everything that's in 
there. OS X has many (thousands?) of invisible files that can't be 
copied by simply dragging a folder as we used to do with OS 9, 8, etc. 
That may be why you're getting the error message about "some files 
could not be copied." The reason someone suggested using Carbon Copy 
Cloner is that it will copy the invisible files as it is the GUI for a 
number of Unix utilities that copy the invisible stuff. I would suggest 
that you back up to another drive entirely, whether another internal or 
an external, such as a FireWire HD. Good luck, John

On Oct 25, 2004, at 5:52 PM, Kevin Willis wrote:

>
>> Then I came across an interesting article on Microsoft's website 
>> (sorry
>> don't have the link), that stated the version of 9 that you would 
>> install
>> with Panther is actually a Virtual Operating System. To me I compared 
>> that
>> to something like Virtual PC. You can run it, but can't boot into it. 
>> It
>> would really explain why these computers at one time could boot into 
>> 9 but
>> no more.
>
>
> My configuration is a 120 Gb hard drive devided into 3 partitions.  
> The first partition is 10 Gb and has OS 9.2.2 installed.  The second 
> is 90 Gb and has Panther installed (Upgraded from Jaguar)  the third 
> is 20 Gb, and I use it to back up my home directory.  I have had no 
> problems switching between X and 9.2.2.
>
> Thanks--
>
> Kevin
>
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