[G4] OS install question

[John Niven]

Margaret,

Why didn't you upgrade your DP450 to 10.4.11? I'm using this on mine.
I don't see why you couldn't just transfer the 250Gb into the Quicksilver and boot from it :-) Should work.

How did you get a 250Gb drive into the DP450 (limit is 128Gb on the built in interface)? Same for the QS I think. So if you are using a PCI card I'd just transfer that over also.

I no longer use OS9 but if I did I would put it on a different disk or at least a different partition.

--- On Mon, 11/3/08, Margaret Krakowiak <imago at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: Margaret Krakowiak <imago at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [G4] OS install question
> To: g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 12:20 PM
> I just bought a dual 1gig Quicksilver.
> It has a 160 gig hard drive, wiped clean, no OS.
> Seller said it was running OSX10.4.6 when tested.
> 
> My question is what is the best way to get this machine
> up and running. I have a retail 10.4 disk that I bought
> when I was upgrading my DP450, which is currently
> upgraded to 10.4.6, with 9.2.2 also installed. (the 450
> came with 9.0.4, and I went through the upgrade
> "steps"
> to get to 9.2.2.) I also have 9.2.1 on a retail disk.
> 
> I'd kind of like to keep a version of 9 on the
> Quicksilver,
> but I could let that go. If I do keep 9, should I use the
> 9.2.1 retail disk to install, then upgrade that to 9.2.2,
> and then
> use the 10.4 retail to install OSX, and upgrade that to
> 10.4.11?
> Or, should I hook the 2 computers together, and use
> CarbonCopy
> to just clone over what I have on the 450 (10.4.6 and
> 9.2.2)
> to the Quicksilver?
> 
> I've never bought a machine without the OS installed,
> and I don't
> want to screw things up from the get go. I read that you
> shouldn't
> install an older system than what is on the computer. This
> one
> has none, but did have 10.4.6 at some point. Does that
> count?
> (I think the 2002 Quicksilvers originally came with 10.1.2
> and
> 9.2.2 installed).
> 
> margaret
> And, my 450 has 3 hard drives in it - the one that has
> 10.4.6 is
> a 250 gig that I installed, and will probably move over to
> the Quicksilver
> once I see that all is well with
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