hi... you can simply startup with tiger DVD and split your HD into two partitions using disk utility. i'm not sure but i think it could be necessary to book a part that is smaller than 128 gb's for classic. as you partition your HD it no matter which OS you install first...
On Oct 1, 2009, at 9:18 PM, Tom wrote: > > 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
