On or about 7/27/03 11:52 AM dmcadam AKA [EMAIL PROTECTED] eruditely mused the following:
>I have a Mac G3 with OS 8.6 and a friend is coming to upgrade me to OSX >with the Classic mode. Does this mean she must first install OS 9.1 then >OSx? If you want to have Classic available to you, then, yes, you have to install 9.1 and upgrade it to 9.2.2 in the two step process outlined earlier. Then you can install your OS X and Classic will be there for you to use with older applications. BUT, if you don't need any old applications, then you don't need to install 9.x in any form at all. Hoverer, because you are using Emailer, as I see you are, then you do need to do that install of OS 9. Don't forget to NEVER open the Emailer "Temp Incoming" folder so you avoid getting a ".DS_Store" file in there that will screw up your CE until you delete the whole folder again and allow CE to make a new one that has not been opened. If you have the space and a full backup, you may like to partition your drive into 2 or even 3 partitions as follows. But first, is you HD in HFS or HFS+ format? You should gain quite a bit of space by ensuring you are formatted as HFS+. If you use 2 partitions you can always reinstall the OS X without losing your OS 9 environment. One partition of about 1Gb or so for the Classic, really Mac OS 9.2.2 install and the rest for the OS X install. I have a 3rd partition of my older and stable 9.1 that I was using before going to OS X - you could do the same with your 8.6 but it is not necessary. My Classic Extensions are setup for the Classic while the 9.1 is set up as a stand alone OS - there is a difference as many extensions and control panels don't work in Classic. It is just part of my insurance policy as I using an unsupported CPU My 2c worth. Hope it is useful to you. Cheers Cheers Karl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Japanese Haiku poetry messages to replace the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Web site you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
