[Ti] OT Classic install & CCC Was: More MacBook Pro Questions

[Mikael Byström]

Timothy D. Naegele said:

>I was told by Apple that Classic had to be installed before everything
>else, and that they screwed up when they put in the new HD.

There's no reason of course for installing OS 9 disk drivers just to run
classic within OS X. Classic means just that, running OS 9 applications
inside OS X (implicating the presence of that OS on disk). For this you
don't need OS 9 disk drivers. If Apple support actually suggested you
need then that is beyond me. I don't trust Apple support myself.

One neat way to use OS 9, if you use Classic as rarely as I do, is to
install it on a disk image. OS X will remember which image and mount it
before running it. This way I don't need to have it on my already crammed
system disc ( I really need one of those 120GB discs soon) and also my
minimal installation is ready to be put on other machine if needed. I'm
assuming the machine in question came with OS 9, so you wouldn't break
any license agreements by doing so. If not, I suppose one needs to get a
license for the other machine too before moving it to there. It's very
possible to get one on the secind hand market cheaply, but it must come
with all the papers and be a retail version, not just an OS disc that
came with the machine. 
One of these days Apple really should give OS 9.2.2 away for free,
without rights to free support of course.