On 07/09/10 10:12PDT, Dan wrote:
At 10:02 AM -0700 9/6/2010, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
My sister has asked me to wipe out everything on the hard drive and
reinstall Mac OS 9.2.2 plus Mac OS 10.4.11. Since it has been YEARS
that I've done any OS 9 installs I have a few questions.
2. I plan on erasing the hard drive and have it "zeroed". Since I know
it will boot up into FireWire Target Disk Mode, I was planning on
erasing the drive that way. Any problems doing it so?
That's fine. But since you need to boot on the OS X DVD, why not just
use Disk Utility from it?
3. Since I have a 9.2.2 install CD, I will boot from it to install Mac
OS 9.2.2. However, how should I go about installing Mac OS 10.4? Boot
from the DVD, or just do the install while the iMac is running on
9.2.2? I've never installed both OS 9.x and OS 10.x from scratch before.
When you initialize the disk, be sure to include the OS 9 drivers - if
you want to boot on OS 9. Otherwise all you can do with the OS 9
installation is use it as Classic mode under Tiger.
Boot on the OS X DVD and install Tiger. Boot on Tiger. Insert the OS 9
disc and run that installer.
4. Since I don't have any way to connect this old iMac to the
Internet, is there any other way to run the Software Updaters for OS 9
& OS 10? Perhaps by connecting it with an Ethernet cable to my
PowerBook and sharing it's Internet connection?
Internet connection sharing would work just fine. Sharing system
preferences, Internet tab. It will turn your PowerBook into a router for
a while...
Thanks for the info, Dan.
I haven't tried booting from the Tiger disc yet, but I'll give it a go.
Another decision is should I partition the drive and put Tiger on one
and OS 9 on the other, or should I just leave the 40 GB drive as 1?
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Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney
"Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is
... oh, never mind."
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