At 12:10 PM -0500 03/29/2004, James Morgan wrote:------------------A friend of mine with a Blue and White G3 wants to upgrade the operating system from OS 8.6 to OS 9.2.2. Can he do this upgrade in one jump or does he need to upgrade to OS 9.0 as an intermediate step?
If you have an OS 9.2.2 CD, it's one step.
If you have an OS 9.0 or 9.1 CD, then you have to add the 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 updaters.
FWIW, because of the gigantic diffs between 8.6 and 9.x, I strongly recommend doing a clean install of OS 9. Start fresh...
- Dan.
That is a good suggestion and I agree with you completely. What would you think of the option of having my friend buy an external firewire hard drive and installing OS 9.2.2 and OS 10.2.8 on it. Then he could leave OS 8.6 alone and just run from OS 9.2.2 on the external drive? But he would always have the option of booting from OS 8.6 again if there was something there he needed?
That's fine. OS 9 will force you to update your disk drives, but that's ok - those drivers hum fine with 8.6. Be sure to make a backup of your whole system before installing any OS. (Toast makes nice bootable CDs!)
Keep in mind that if you make a whole new system volume, with freshly installed applications, there are going to be some "collisions"... Double-click on a document and it doesn't really know which app to launch - the one on the disk with 8.6 or the fresh one on the disk with 9.
- Dan.
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