>I was finally able to get video on one of my s900's by installing a
>Raedon video card and booting without extensions (I guess...shift key
>held down). 

You are correct, that's what you did --- started up without extensions
(most of them, and including control panels) --- when you held the
Shift key during boot.

>First of all,  how do I set it up so that I don't have to hold down the
>shift key at boot up. 

Look under the Apple menu for Control Panels. Inside, you should still
see Extensions Manager. That's where you can enable or disable various
things with a � (check mark). Note that up in the menu bar under View
you can organize what you see into (related) packages or by
(alphabetical) items or simply by what folders the items exist within
the System Folder.

What the Extensions Manager does for you is save you the hassle of
having to drag items into or out of the various folders that are
inside your System Folder. Here's a tip: Don't have the Extensions
Folder or Control Panels Folder open while the Extensions Manager is
running. That'll crash the Extensions Manager.

At this point you'll notice that many items appear enabled (checked)
even though you disabled them upon boot. That's because holding down the
Shift key during boot is only a temporary, that-time deal.

>I tried to install the software that came with my video card but I
>couldn't even see where I could access the cd-rom.

Right. One of the many things you disabled was the extension for the
CDROM.  With the Extensions Manager open, turn almost everything off
except the CD/DVD ROM (or whatever it's called) extension. A sane way
to do this is to View by Packages and turn off things on a per-Package
basis or maybe start with "Mac OS 9.1 Base" in the popup menu instead.

> ... so I am not even sure what booting without extensions means.

Perhaps the closest analogy to this might be if there was a safe way to
remove some items from the Windows folder in order to disable
functionality to various peripherals or features of the OS itself. They
are "extensions" of the OS in effect, mini applications that run in the
background and without an interface. I dunno, like DLLs?

Incidentally, the individual Control Panels are very similar, they just
have a user interface.

>... I want a larger hard drive, so I am going to have to do a software
>reload. 

Strictly speaking this isn't true, as a new hard drive, after being
initialized and formatted, can be made a copy of what you already have
by dragging the contents into the new hard drive's icon. About the only
difficulty you'd see is if some files are in use such as fonts. Booting
from CD or yet another drive would of course fix that, but you don't
necessarily have to install the OS on a new drive just to have that
software ON there, if you get what I'm saying. 

Come to think of it, if you select the System Folder and hit Command-D
(duplicate) you'll get a System Folder copy, which can then be dragged
to the new drive (and then rename it System Folder when done). Welcome
to REAL Drag and Drop (since discontinued Mar. 2001 with the arrival of
Unix-based OS X...). But yeah --- the only way to know for sure what's
going on is for you to do every install yourself. Are you geeky enough
for that?

>Where is the best place to get software? I see OS 9.2 with OSX jaguar on
>ebay all the time selling for about $80.00, but I was not sure if this
>is a good deal or not. 

That's not too bad. Panther will be $130 but may or may not come with OS
9.2. At any rate if you want OS9 you'll need a OS9 CD. The 9.2 CD won't
install on any SuperMac without 9.1 already present. My vote is to seek
out 9.1 as it's very useful on a wide variety of older Power Macs.

>I know my computer will require some work before osX can be installed
>(processor etc..) but I figured If I could get 9.2 and OSX at once, I
>can always upgrade later.

Sorry, no. Jaguar requires a G3 or G4 as well as the XPostFacto hack.
And without sufficient RAM you'll be too miserable to use it until
"later".

-David

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