[G4] Installing Tiger

[John Baltutis]

On 12/18/06, Tony Johansen <tjoh7019 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> On 17/12/2006 9:18 AM, "Les Berkley" <wogears at fast.net>wrote:
>>
>> G4 Sawtooth 400. I have three partitions on my current HD. The boot
>> partition (10.3.9) is 10GB, of which 5.5 are used. There is also a 9.2.2
>> partition, which is bootable, and used for Classic.
>
> As O'Brien says, yes you will be able to do as you wish. I am just adding
> that you seem to have a misunderstanding of Classic. Classic is OS 9 run
> from within Panther. It is located on your 10.3.9 partition and would still
> be there as usual even if there is no other partition on your HD. The OS 9
> operates on top of the already operating OS X. It can be found on your HD in
> a folder called 'Systems Folder' and has a '9' on the folder icon, whereas
> the folder for OS X is in a folder called simply 'System' and has an 'X' on
> the folder.
>
> Many people, however, such as myself, and apparently you as well, have a
> separate partition with OS 9.2 installed on it. This is independent of the
> other partition and is bootable. The only connection from this OS 9
> partition to the Panther side is via a shared folder, often called a Drop
> Box, or other network options.
>
> On the other hand, Panther is capable of utilizing the OS 9 partition as if
> it was just another partition for storing files, but it cannot operate the
> OS 9 applications that are there. Panther can only operate the OS 9 apps
> indirectly by allowing the Classic environment within itself. Because it is
> a long long time since I have had need to use an OS 9 app (I have Quark over
> there, but don't use Quark anymore) and I find OS 9 to be generally an
> unpleasant experience these days and very frustrating to use compared to
> Panther, that I just use the OS 9 partition for my iTunes Library. iTunes
> and iPhoto work fine with their Library's on another partition including one
> with OS 9 on it, as they do on any external drive.
>
> The only advantage to having a separate OS 9 partition is that sometimes
> there can be some apps in the Classic environment that have some troubles,
> such as accessing a printer. Apart from that it suits some people to have a
> familiar full OS 9 environment because they like it. If I had my time over I
> would have simply installed OS X and not bothered with the OS 9 partition.
> It is largely useless.

Wrong on many counts. According to
<http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/classic/>, to run Classic in OS X you must
have a Mac OS 9 System Folder installed on your computer, either on the same
hard disk as Mac OSX, or on another disk or disk partition. Thus, the OP can
use the OS 9 partition for his Classic and not have a Mac OS 9 System Folder on
his Panther volume. I have a bootable OS 9 partition so I can do some things
that require OS9 but aren't supported w/Classic.