First, if this is a bit late for the thread, it's because the cable people took 12 days to get the cable at the pole by my house to work. 12 days since we moved into the new house and 12 days of internet withdrawal!!!! I almost went back to dialup. (That would be like a junkie going for a glass of beer because he couldn't find and heroin.)
Partitioning is easy and works well for multiple systems. You can start from one to repair the other, etc. I run 8.1 and 9.1 on various Macs in their own partitions. The only problem I've seen is using RAMDoubler while swapping between 8.1 and 9.1. When you go to 8.1, it works fine, but returning to 9.1 , it likes to tell you it wasn't properly imstalled and needs to be reinstalled before it will work. You need to save everything from the drive to another drive or computer (or burn it to CD if that option is available) as partitioning will wipe the entire drive. You can then copy the 8.1 stuff back to its partition and install 9.1 on the other. Be advised that 9.1 needs lots of RAM. You'll be wanting the max of 64 Meg and VM on. 9.1 runs quite nicely on my 1400, G3/217 and fantastically on my 1400, G3/333. A little note: Many OS 9.1 apps actually only need the carbonlib extension. (1.6 is the newest I believe and is a free download from Apple.com) It can be downloaded and dropped into the extensions folder of OS 8.1 and allows many 9.1 apps to work. You can also download Nine 11 (Version 1.3) a free extension that allows using many 8.1 apps with 9.1. (Anyone remember the download URL?) I can attach it to an email if you can't find it online. Drop it in the 9.1 extensions folder. David Allen Spencer Carter wrote: > For the past two years, my 1400 has been happily running OS 8.1 with a Sonnet G3 > upgrade. > > Now I'm thinking about going to OS 9.1, which is required by a new application I'm > thinking about getting. > > Would appreciate advice on whether to install 9.1 on a second partition and leave > 8.1 as is. I'm concerned that some of my older applications may not like 9.1, but on > the other hand, I've heard it's not good to have two operating systems on the same > Mac. > > Any do's or don't regarding installing 9.1? > > Thanks, > Spence -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
