I used the following option to put 9.2 on my MDD which came to me with 10.4 installed - Install 9.2 on a separate drive, then set that drive up as a slave drive in the iMac. Of course, this presupposes that the that you can put two hard drives in an iMac, a supposition about which I have no idea.
On Mar 5, 2:29 am, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Ken Daggett wrote: > > > On 4 Mar 2009, at 08:02:16 PST, Stro wrote: > > >> Greetings, > >> I teach at a small church run school and get acquired some g3 > >> iMacs. The iMacs have OS 10.3.9 on them. I have software that only > >> runs under 9.2 that the students use. Is there a way I can install > >> 9.2 without having to reinstall 10.3? > > >> Thanks, > >> Lee > > ------------- > > Depends on how the drives were formatted originally. If "OS 9 Drivers" > > were installed at formatting time, there would be no problem. If not, > > I don't believe OS 9 will function even in "Classic" mode. > > "OS 9 Drivers" installed is necessary to access the drive when booted > from an OS 9 system. Classic accesses the drive through OS X so it is > not affected. > > -- > Clark Martin > Redwood City, CA, USA > Macintosh / Internet Consulting > > "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
