On Jan 8, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Jack Countryman wrote:
OS 9.1, or 9.2.1 would have come as a separate cd in the set of
disks you got with the machine. It has to be installed separately
from the OSX stuff...for best results, I's suggest installing the
OS 9 stuff first...then OSX if you want it.
As far as I know, other versions of the OS are still controlled by
Apple, even if they no longer sell them. 9.2.1 cds used to be
relatively easy to find and cheap as they came with early versions
of OSX, but folks often did not install or use them, and so sold
them off.
6.03, 6.05, 6.08, 7.5.3 are all posted for free download on the
'older software' page of Apple's server. Updates for more recent
systems are there, to 9.1, but you need the base system to
update...to get 9.1 to work, you need to start with 9.0 or 9.04
installed and then use the downloaded 9.1 updater there. There
were non-Apple sources selling 9.1 disks for a while. I checked
the one I have bookmarked...the webpage still comes up...who knows
if they still sell the disks. They want $159.95 for a 9.1 cd.
Gotcha. That's what I found... UPDAES, but not the base system.
I'll look at the OSX installs and see if 9 is in there.
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