[HM] running OS 9

[David Crandon]

Go into your OS9 System Folder and discard the following files.

Classic
Classic Support
Classic Support UI

Upon restart and launching Classic these files will be regenerated.

Then check your Startup Pref Pane again.

David Crandon


On Jan 31, 2004, at 5:59 AM, enterprise wrote:

> hi folks, wondered if anyone can help here:
>
> I've just purchased a nearly-new iMac G4/800Mhz; in most ways 
> identical to
> the other iMac I have access to, G4/700MHz, but differing in the 
> version of
> OS X it has on board; the 800MHz one sports OS X 10.2.7  and the 700MHz
> sports OS X 10.1.2.
>
> The point is that I needed a Mac that can boot in OS 9.2; the 700MHz 
> one is
> fine with that, but even though I've able to install OS 9.2 onto the 
> 800MHz
> hard drive, when I come to <Change Startup Disk>, it does not list it 
> (only
> the 10.2.7 Folder), thus I cannot boot up in OS 9 (I have tried 
> shutdown and
> restart etc).
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Is it possible that the later version of OS X (10.2.7) somehow 
> _disables_
> the use of OS 9 for booting? If so, can I just re-install the previous
> version of OS X (10.1.2) and make everything OK (OS 9-wise)?
>
> regards
>
> michaelP
>
>
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