Thanks, Yersinia, but that option, to install the OS 9 drivers, is not offered by the Disk Utility that is on the Tiger Installer. So I dug around in my old disc collection and found a 10.1 installer disk, but discovered on starting up with it that it has no Utilities menu on it at all. It cannot erase and format a drive, it can only install 10.1.
However, I accidentally let it install 10.1 on this iMac's hard drive (once it got started, there was no way to stop it, and I was afraid to just shut the Mac off, so I let it do the install and figured I'd erase the disk later), and when I opened the Disk Utility on the installed 10.1 System, it DID offer to erase the disk and install the OS-9 drivers. However, the erase and format options were all grayed out, because Disk Utility cannot erase and format the disk that it's running from, the startup disk. So the situation we have here is this: the Tiger installer disk doesn't offer the option of OS-9 drivers. The 10.1 installer disk has no Disk Utilities on it, but after you install 10.1, its Disk Utilities DOES offer the 9 drivers, but you can't do it because it's the startup disk and it can't operate on itself. Now, I do have some external hard drives, and my first thought was to install 10.1 on one of them and then start up the iMac with it and format the Mac's internal drive that way, but all my external drives already have 10.4 on them, and you can't install an earlier version of OS-X over a later version. So, I'm stymied for a way to get the OS 9 drivers. Any ideas? Tom Tom On Oct 1, 9:54 pm, yersi...@cybernex.net wrote: > Tom writes, > > <Thanks, Yersinia and Taner. Well, I can start the old iMac up with the > 10.4 installer disk, and then use its Disk Utility to format the new > drive, but no matter how I try it (either Erase or Partition), I am > not given any option to install any OS 9 drivers. It just doesn't > offer that option. Am I missing it somewhere? Where should I look for > it?> > > When you go to the Erase tab in Disk Utility, immediately below the > fields for the choice of Volume Format and the name to give the HD< > there's a little box for a checkmark next to text which reads "Mac OS 9 > Drivers Installed." If there's already a check in the box, you're OK, no > need to do anything. But if the box has no checkmark, you give it one by > clicking the box. This has to be done for OS 9 to install and run on the > system. > > <And by the way, this old iMac does see the new drive as a 500 gig, or > rather 460 or something.> > > Wow, that's cool! I guess your mother-in-law's Jurassic Mac can do > things my Triassic Mac can't! LOL > > Good luck! :-) > > ~Yersinia. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
