Is this a different topic? I want to be able to run OS 9-bootable (and run Illustrator, Photoshop) on an imac with 10.5.8 Tiger snow?)
On Oct 2, 7:21 am, beecaretaker <ben64sm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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 thisiMac'shard 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 theiMacwith 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 InteliMacI > still use my 800MHZ G4 "iLamp" running 10.5 (Used the open firmware > hack to install) . > Ben. -- 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
