On Nov 5, 2003, at 6:40 PM, Jim Traversy wrote:
Please excuse me if this question has been asked and answered innumerable times.
I have a PowerBase 180 without a CPU upgrade and for several years have been using OS9.1 with no real problems. Now I have a Power Mac and I'm switching to OSX, but I want to give the PowerBase to a computerless friend. I'm going to wipe the internal and external drives and re-install the OS and I'm wondering if it's possible to use 9.2.2, so that my friend will have the latest version. Also, I've noticed that 9.2.2 has Apple's disc burning program on it, which I think will be easier for my friend, a computer novice, to use than Toast. Does anyone have any experience with with this?
It's possible to put the later versions of OS9 on an unsupported machine, however, it takes a hack to do it. Check out the OS 9 Helper available free from OWC http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/OS9Helper/framework.cfm?topic=32 Standard, out of the box, 9.1 is the last version that will install on any of the Power Computing machines.
I would not necessarily say that Apple's disc copy is any easier to use than Toast. Both work well, and Toast is really easy to use. Toast also gives you some some burning options that the built in disc copy does not.
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Jack Russell
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