My mother-in-law, an elderly and stubborn lady (though nice) refuses to give up her old 1 GHz iMac (the half-soccer-ball novelty with the little monitor-on-a-stem sticking out of it) even though it dates from the Jurassic Period of computing and we all keep telling her she'd be better off with a new or at least newer iMac. She's had this Mac since she bought it new. The reason she wants to keep the old thing, says the sweet old thing, is that she has equally antique applications that she cannot bear to part with, and that can only run in OS 9 (such as an old genealogy program, an early word processor, solitaire games, etc.), and none of the newer iMacs can run Classic. She has simply got to run Classic, as well as OS-X for e-mail and surfing the web with Safari.
We tried to persuade her to give up this old iMac when its hard drive died the other day, but she insisted on reviving it, so we bought a new 500-gig hard drive from OWC and installed it (and was that ever a nightmare, digging into the crammed-full innards of that stupid soccer ball). We also upped the ram to 1.5 gigs (I think it was). So now we're at the stage where we have this new empty drive in the iMac, as yet unformatted, and we have to get both OS-9 and OS-X onto it. For some reason, none of the OS-9 installer discs that I've accumulated over the years will start up this Mac (while holding down the C key), but an OS-X Tiger disk will, and Disk Utility on the Tiger installer disk sees the new drive just fine, so the HD installation was successful. I did not install Tiger on the new drive because I'm worried that we may have to install OS-9 first, and then put OS-X on top of it. Is that how it's done, when you want both, and want to run Classic? Or, am I wrong, and can we install Tiger first, and then put 9.2.2 on the same drive (maybe on a different partition) afterward? I have a disk called "9.2.2 Classic Install" that will not start up this iMac, but I can view its contents in my G5, and it seems like maybe I could install OS-9 from the desktop of OS-X in the iMac. Am I right? In short, what would be the best way to install both 10.4.11 and Classic 9.2.2 on this old G4 iMac? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
