SUCCESS! Thanks very much Ralph, Taner, Kris, and Ben. It's very good of you all to take the time to help me out here. Ralph, you're right, the more I fool around with this little Mac the more fond I'm getting of the thing. I like the way the monitor swivels around so smoothly into any position or angle and stays put. It's too small a screen for me, though, since I've become accustomed to the 24-inch LCD attached to my G5. You get spoiled.
Taner, thanks for the info, but I didn't have to mess with any jumpers on the drive because, thanks to Kris' advice, I was able to find the OS-9 drivers and format the drive with them. Kris, you were right about how to find the OS-9 drivers within the Partitions tab in Disk Utility, but it was not on the 10.4 installer disk; I had to go back to the 10.2 installer to find it, but there it was. So I formatted the drive with it (1 Partition) using the 10.2 installer disk, and then I installed OS-X with the 10.4 installer disk. After 10.4 was up and running, I just put in a disk I have here called "9.2.2 Installer," and it put 9.2.2 on the drive too, no problem. Then I launched Classic, chose the OS-9 folder when it asked for it, and now Classic runs fine! The lady should now be able to run all her old OS-9 programs in Classic, just like before. Ben, you're probably right about the 9 drivers not really being necessary, but they're on there now anyway, just in case they're ever needed. I haven't yet tried to reboot the Mac into pure OS-9, but maybe it's possible now, if it were ever required for some reason. NOW, I've got one last question for anybody who might have an answer: We are in the process of putting all the lady's data back on the drive, from a backup that was made onto an external drive when the old internal drive began to go flakey. She had been running 10.4 before the hard drive failure, and all the OS-X folders that were in the system she was using are there on the backup drive. Is it possible for us to restore all her e-mail addresses, Safari bookmarks, and other such stuff by merely replacing folders on her new system with folders dragged over from the old backed-up system? I mean, for example, can I trash her new Users folder and then drag the old Users from the backup over to the new System, and will the new system then recognize and use that old folder with all its information? Ditto with Applications, Library, etc? Or will I maybe corrupt the new system by trying to splice in pieces of the old one? Is it better (and safer) for her to just reconstruct her old information by putting it in manually? Tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
