This is also going to answer Jacqueline's post too. There is no difference between Classic and OS9. Classic is a kind of emulator than the OS9 system runs in. Think of a very fast Virtual PC app. When you use an OS9 system under the Classic app, it will add some files to your OS9 System Folder for compatibility.
Now, why does Ryan Rempel say to partition in to 3 segments and load 2 OS9 systems? Simple, on our older machines, if something goes all zonkers, you have an untouched OS9 partition to work from to get back an running. Classic is built into OSX, but the OS9 system is installed separately, what I'm saying is that the Classic environment app is part of OSX, but it doesn't run unless you have OS9 installed. You can safely use one OS9 System as both your Classic.app environment, as well as booting the machine, but if something in OSX hoses it, you are screwed. That is when the third partition is handy. Here is how mine is set up. One 500MB HD for OS9.1. One 20GB HD, partitioned into 17GB OSX (10.2.4) and a 2GB partition for 9.2.2 that I use for the Classic environment. Works well, saves disk space. And I don't need to worry about completely hosing my system. -Robyn On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 08:57 PM, dan_A wrote: > What I didn't understand in the instructions > (Rempel) was the difference between "Classic" and 9.x. In the > XpostFacto instructions it's suggested that we use three partitions: > for X, 9.x and classic. I was able to reboot from X to 9.2.2 and > before that open some programs in classic while in X. Was X using my > 9.2.2 or is classic built into x -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
