I reformatted and partitioned the hard drive on my ibook. I installed jaguar on the largest partition and using software restore reinstalled the software that came with the machine, except OS 9.2. I didn't install 9.2 because the software restore disk wouldn't let me put it on a separate partition.
Next I booted the computer with the os9 cd. When I ran the install program, I was told the install program wouldn't work on my computer. I had a second copy of os 9 and booted the computer from that cd and the same thing happened. Next I used the software restore cd and put classic on the osx partition. Then I rebooted the machine into classic and popped the os 9 cd in the drive and attempted to install 9 on its own partition. It still indicated the installer would not work on this machine. When I started this message I wanted to get the exact wording of the above message so I popped the os9 cd into the drive rebooted and clicked on the install program and it worked - curious. When I restarted the computer on the os9 partition it froze - fatal error with a bomb. I ctrl-cmd reset and the program froze again. The third time I held down the cmd and option keys and rebuilt the desktop on the os9 partition it seemed to work. I am going to play with the os 9 partition some more. If it is stable is it safe to remove classic from the os x partiton? If I can safely remove it, will jaguar find classic on the classic partition? Better yet, am I wasting my time? Should I forget about the classic partition and leave things as they are? Thanks for reading through all this. And thanks for your help. Harry, Harry Jacobson-Beyer Surveyor of the Passing Scene! http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ What a strange, long, trip it is! remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how fast you go coming down! The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
