Weather or not you need to run classic depends on if you have apps. that will only run in classic mode. As far as losing firewire and CD-RW after upgrading to 10.2.8, I don't see how upgrading would cause that problem. I'd say that theres something worng if you lost those after you upgraded to 10.2.8. I have Tiger running on my 600 and it runs fine, but I don't use any classic apps. so I can't say weather or not they'll run okay or not. Matt --- Judy Castles-Bentley <jkcbteach at hotmail.com> wrote: --------------------------------- Forgive such a basic question, but if I upgrade my iBook G3/700 hard drive, would I still want to run Classic? Would I lose a lot of applications if I installed Tiger? (I've already lost firewire recognition and CD/RW, which I believe is a result of upgrading to 10.2.8.) Freedom's just another word for . . . you know what.:) Thank you, J. B. > _______________________________________________ > iBook mailing list > iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage > Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com