I cleaned up my 2GB harddrive (drive #2), backed up in an extra drive (drive #3 which I removed later), then did some acrobatic stuff to be able to put as much files as possible into my already full [startup] 9.5GB (drive #1 with 9.2) harddrive which I am using now (drive #3 helped a lot with moving files around), since I am not dumb (you know :)) and I heard horror stories about OS X so I wanted it to be in a separate drive.
2GB is way small for OSX, btw...if you move to it on a permanent basis you will want to get a newer, larger hard drive.
I installed OS X in drive #2 which is as you know 2GB. I could never figure out how to change the resolution, cause the image was smaller than the screen and on top of that it was to the left of the monitor leaving at least 5-6 pixels from the left out of sight, this Apple multiplescan controls can't be adjusted who knows why. But this was only the beginning.
This means your monitor adjustment is somewhat out of whack. The OSX installer runs at 800x600.
When I tried to open files from my drive (drive #1 with 9.2) OS 9.2 booted up in a separate window (I thought this was sorta cool!) but then, I expected it to give me the option to use full screen and continue with OS 9.2 (I was hoping to have an interface like Virtual PC 5) but no it is really weird, then the OSX bar at the bottom was in the way (its kinda huge), when I opened Netscape I was hoping to go to my mail and move on from there but I tried to find the location of my folder but I couldn't.
This is how it's supposed to work. OS 9 componments run as though they're in OSX...you can tell you're in the Classic Environment because the menu font has changed and the good ol rainbow apple is there in the corner.
Your Netscape folder is in your OS 9 system folder on the other drive where's it always been.
Go to the System Preferences app (the Light switch icon on the dock; this is the OS X equivalent of the Control Panels folder in 9.2) and select the Dock preference pane. You can make the dock smaller, and best, make it hide itself until you bring the mouse pointer down to the bottom of your screen, so it's out of the way.
You can turn off that horrid magnification 'feature' too.
You can adjust you monitor in here, as well, using the Monitors pane.
All I see in that drive is a bunch of unrecognizable stuff, I don't want to erase OSX since someday Apple will drop support on 9.2 and we are going to be stuck in Jaguar wether we like it or not, so what now??
Um, no. You can run OS9 on your Mac 'till the cows come home. At no point is your OS9 going to turn into a pumpkin rendering your Mac useless.
If you get a new mac, you'll be running OSX on it, yes. You'll also be running OSX on a machine made for OSX...a vastly different experience, trust me.
You can erase it, you've got the installer disks, don't you?
Basically, you jumped into a new OS on a marginal system, without a lot of information.
I would definitely suggest getting either 'Mac OSX: The Missing Manual' by David Pogue, or 'The Little Mac OSX book' by Roberta Williams.
Mac OS X the Missing Manual: <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxmm2/>
The Little Mac OS X book: <http://www.peachpit.com/isapi/st~{BE17A1F3-54C4-4E75-A250-BA9ECE290FFE}/session_id~{5D4EE386-A543-4FEE-A055-A53D661CBB8E}/product_id~{19AFABD0-597E-49EB-825F-CAF1F96C2423}/books/product.asp>
OSX is indeed different, it has quirks, it has a lot of things you do differently. It also runs like a Mack truck, has astonishingly cool stuff in it, and is imnsho the very best personal computer OS on the planet today.
Once I installed OSX on my mac, it took about two days, and I never went back. I *never* boot into OS 9, and rarely even fire up Classic.
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