On Jan 13, 2010, at 9:14 AM, deadwinter wrote:

> Hi folks:
> 
> I'm looking for help in essentially what the subject says.  I have a
> Beige Desktop G3 which I just upgraded with a Sonnet Encore, and added
> RAM.  Now I am trying to upgrade the hard drive.  The kicker, however,
> is that I have both OS9 and OS X 10.2 on there, and I no longer have
> the media for either.
> 
> This article  (http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-Zone/IDE/) seems to
> indicate that I would need to create two partitions in the new drive,
> and that I'd need to do a fresh install of OS 10.2 into that first
> (smaller than 8GB !) partition.  Then I could clone the old OS 9
> partition into the new drive.
> 
> Of course, I can't do the former, as I don't have the media for 10.2.
> I have 10.4, but that would mean I'd need XPostFacto in there, and I'd
> rather do that after the hard drive upgrade.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas as to how this may be accomplished?  Do I
> just try to hunt down someone with the old 10.2 CDs?
> 
> Best Regards:
> 
> -carlos rodriguez
> 


I just got done doing this on a WallStreet 300 512. I would just go with the 
XPostFacto and Tiger right out of the gate. I did like you want and started 
with 10.2.8 but by the time the sun went down I had 10.4.11 and 9.2.2 on the 
first 7.7 GB partition and 9.2.2 on a second partition just for laughs, it 
really doesn't need the extra OS9 partition but it made me feel better about it 
because this was my first XPostFacto attempt, what a piece of cake:) The 9.2.2 
can be just a finder copy but CCC makes it easy.

John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA



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