On Feb 18, 2:16 am, Kyle Parish <[email protected]> wrote: > In system prefrences, you should see a button that says startup > disks. Click on it and you should see os9 and OSX. I believe you should be > able to delete it from there. > >
Kyle, there is no option to delete, or otherwise remove, OS 9 using Startup Disk. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Al Poulin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In System Preferences, the Classic preference, in the Start/Stop pane, > > do you see a message "Classic is not running"? You can stop Classic > > there. If it will not stop, look for any OS 9 applications that may > > be running. Make sure TextEdit, TeachText, or whatever, is not > > running. You may have to force quit an application. > > > Al Poulin > Al, I've made sure Classic is not running. I don't have any Classic applications to run, I just wanted to see if Classic would run (and boot). Now that I've seen it work, I would like it gone. I used Brian Troisi's suggestion to use Cmd+S at startup. Instead of actually deleting the "System Folder" directory, possibly causing irreversible damage to the file system, I opted to rename it with the 'mv' command. I used mv -v "System Folder" Lonnie I verified that the change was made and then did exit OS X continued to boot as normal. Now, the OS 9 System folder (the one with the big 9 on it) reflects it's new name of 'Lonnie'. Startup Disk still recognizes it as a bootable OS folder. Also, I get the same error, as usual, when trying to drag it to the Trash: The operation could not be completed because item "Lonnie" is required by the System. I can still start Classic mode. It appears that I haven't broken anything. Something interesting that I just noticed. It's probably not related to the issue though. On this machine I turned on 'Show Classic status in menu bar'. I can see the icon in the menu bar change from light grey (Classic OFF) to a darker grey, maybe black (Classic ON). On another machine, at home, I could swear that the Classic ON icon in the menu bar was colored with the orange-ish number 9. If it wasn't an iMac at the house, then it was a Titanium at the house (also running 10.4.11). The difference between these two machines, OS-wise, is that this one's OS 9.2.2 was installed from an iMac G5 Tiger CD and the machine at home got it's OS 9.2.2 'dragged to it' from a backup of another OS 9.2.2 machine. NOTE: For some reason, I cannot boot to OS 9 on the latter machine. Back to the original question... Can I just boot back in Single User Mode and whack this OS 9 folder without causing any problems? Personally, I wouldn't care if it stayed visible. But in the end, this machine will be going to someone else who probably doesn't need the extra confusion of a second OS. Thanks, Lonnie. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
