[P1] Classic still won't start

[Jack Rodgers]

On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 07:08  AM, Joyce Ranieri wrote:

> Thanks, Brian, I'm not quite sure how to do this. OS X didn't come on 
> my iBook (it's too old). I tried to use my original Software Restore 
> Disk, but it wouldn't boot. Then I tried using the Software Restore 
> that came with my new flat-panel iMac -- I got part way, but when I 
> inserted the CD I got a message that this CD doesn't support this 
> computer -- and my only option was to quit.

Classic is a piece of software in X that makes OS 9 useable. There is 
no Classic as such to install, you just install OS 9.

Look for an OS 9 INSTALL DISK and install OS 9 on your drive after 
rebooting to that CD. This disk must have shipped with your iBook, 
since OS 9 install disks are machine specific, or it must be the over 
the counter commercial edition which has the enabler for all Macs 
shipped before its creation.

Some iBooks shipped with OS 8 and not OS 9, if my memory is correct, so 
you may have to located an over the counter version of OS 9.

The enabler for your specific Mac must be on the install disk. Thus 
disks shipped with a Mac only work with that Mac since Apple only 
places the enabler for that Mac on that install disk.

If you buy over the counter the OS 9 install, it will not have enablers 
for Macs introduced after the disk was created. but will work with 
earlier Macs.

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