From: Alan Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Classic worked fine for me. In the early days of OSX I used it to run my old copy of Netscape.There are a few apps and hardware that don't run in Classic mode. Truth be told once your setup in OSx and things are running well best to update your apps and not bother with OS 9.x IMHO. I boot into OS 9.x once a week to archive my email in Eudora and that is my only need for OS 9.x. It is of course needed for setting up XPFacto and when things go wrong and you need to run utilities.
Gregg Gorrie wrote:
> 1) Is there any advantage to using "Classic" mode rather than just > re-booting into OS9.2.2 off my other hard drive?
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As an interested observer of all threads on X, it's my impression it's better
to not use Classic and instead boot into 9.1/9.2.
Alan
snips takenFrom: Gregg Gorrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:10:25 -0800
Now to the questions - apologies if these are somewhat basic and/or have
been covered before:
1) Is there any advantage to using "Classic" mode rather than just
re-booting into OS9.2.2 off my other hard drive? For now, the majority of my
computing will still be done in OS9 and I'll only be using OSX for those
apps that need it (DVD-SP2, iPhoto, etc.).
In other words, can I wipe off the OS9 I installed for Classic mode and use
that drive space for OSX apps?
I see no reason to have two installs of OS 9. you can use one for both Classic and booting. Once you get used to OSX and how well it works you'll be kissing OS 9 good bye with no regrets. It does take some getting used to. However being able to run 3-4 apps and download all at the same time with little slow down will hook you on it. OS 9 seems like the stoneage when every thing comes to a stand still while you wait for a download to finish or one app to be done so you can start another project.
2) Can I use Retrospect in OS9 to back up my OSX partition (so I can
reformat that drive for one partition) and then restore OSX back onto that
drive?
No you can't. You can use Retrospect to do backups and there is a new OS X version. OSX like all UNIX has a ton of hidden files that would be missing from your backups. There are also some UNIX files that don't show up in OS 9.x So no way to make a bootable copy of OSX in OS 9.x However there is "Carbon Copy Cloner" which will do what you want. It can be found at www.versiontracker.com
3) Is there a way to check and see if the L2CacheConfig is actually working
in OSX?
-- Gregg
Well if you start in verbose mode ( hold own the apple and v keys at startup and read the text carefully you will see when it loads. There used to be a little app that opened for L2CacheConfig that showed the info. But it's not the best choice for UMAX machines. www.powerlogix.com has "Cache Control X" which gives you much more control over your settings and has the all important ability to turn off the motherboard L2 cache which really speeds things up on the Umax and Apple machines with non removable L2 cache. It also shows your settings and CPU temperature.
Congrats on getting OSX to work so easily. Will S
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