If you got it with the OSX package, you got a separate 9.1 or 9.2.1
(which you get depends on which version of OSX...earlier ones had 9.1,
10.2 or 10.3 through 10.4 or so had 9.2.1). The 9 disk was usually
white with a large numeral 9 on its face.
JohnV <mailto:[email protected]>
January 8, 2012 2:28 PM
On Jan 8, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Jack Countryman wrote:
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.
Jack Countryman <mailto:[email protected]>
January 8, 2012 2:18 PM
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.
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