On Oct 2, 5:31 am, Tom <tba...@nmia.com> wrote:
> 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,
If you only want classic support within OS X then you don't need the
OS 9 drivers, you only need them if you want to BOOT into OS 9,
Classic will work fine without them.
Also you don't need to partition your HDD, 9 & X will both live
happily side by side on the one partition either as classic or dual-
boot.
Also see Chris Tilfords post about partition maps, This threw me once,
I could not understand why my Apple partitioned drive would not boot,
then almost by accident I found that the partition table was fat32
with an Apple partition on-top of it!!
Good luck, they are nice machines, Although I have an Intel iMac I
still use my 800MHZ G4 "iLamp" running 10.5 (Used the open firmware
hack to install) .
Ben.
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