Bill Connelly writes, <After you install a Mac OS 9 System Folder, the Classic preference pane should be available the next time you open System Preferences. If it's still not available, try opening a Classic application, and then logging out and logging in again.
To install a Mac OS 9 System Folder, click the link below. See also Installing a Mac OS 9 System Folder to use with the Classic environment Classic> OK -- as it happened, I went on with my moving data into the machine and recustomizing activities (why not -- an Archive Reinstall will preserve it if I have to do one, I figure).... and yes, out of curiosity, when I put one of my Classic apps' icons in the Dock and double clicked it, Classic started up (but the app itself blew out, it wouldn't open, I'll need to investigate that later). And at THAT point, when I went to System Prefs, I DID finally see a Classic pane. I went in, checked it out, saw that it was set properly to "call on" the OS 9 System folder I'd moved in, but, it was still missing the option to put the little "9" icon in the menu bar. I could have sworn I got the little "9" in the menu bar on both my G4 originally, and then on the iBook when I first got it and set it up, by doing something in System Prefs Classic pane...maybe I'm senile and don't really remember, but OK. Somehow your links didn't make it to your reply, Bill, but that's OK, I'll go to Mac Help myself and look up those topics. Also... <I think you have to install the OS 9 (on a separate partition would be my preference), and make sure it is Blessed. Don't remember the details, but it all occurs under the Installation OS 9 CD control as I would do it.> No, you don't HAVE TO put OS 9 on its own partition -- it's BETTER to keep OS 9 separate from OS X when you plan on sometimes actually BOOTING the machine in OS 9, and in fact that's how I originally set up my iBook. However, it's not actually necessary to do it that way, particularly not in Tiger I'd read on this list some time back that earlier versions of OS X would futz up if they were "too close" to OS 9, but not Tiger When I got the iBook in July 2007, I had THOUGHT I'd need to boot it in 9 occasionally, so I gave it a small (8 GB) OS 9 boot partition. As it happened though, I never needed to boot in 9 on the iBook at all (the only times I ever actually did boot the iBook in 9 was when I installed to test it, and then once last night immediately prior to the nuke and pave to see if it still worked, and yes it booted in 9) -- I only need to run Classic on it. It's the *G4* I have to be able to boot in 9 with sometimes (and still can't, dammit! yet another still-unresolved issue, sigh)...And, on the G4, the OS 9 for booting is on a *different HD* from the OS X, which the Mac would treat as "on another partition," meaning it's OK. Because my iBook only has a 30 GB HD and I no longer have room for stuff I never use on it (such as a separate OS 9 boot partition), that's why I decided to nuke and pave it last night, to get rid of that unused partition and do some "clean up and streamline" as well as update certain things I'll be needing to use more in the near future. All righty then, off to go to Mac Help. Thanks for the tip, Bill! ~Yersinia. ________ "Politicians are those who deal with the problems which would not exist if they didn't exist." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
