Well,
A few months back I was trying to get the ol' S900 up to OS 9. I had a
G3/400 running 8.6 and 24 gb of storage on 4 SCSI drives and about 386mb of
RAM.
NOW... G4/700...1gb RAM...24 gb scsi storage...and os 9.1! Finally!
How'd I do it you ask? Read on:
I have a system 4 gb drive and a 2gb "EMS" back up drive (plus two 9gb
drives for storage).
I switched the start up to the EMS drive. Then I did a clean install for 9.1
(from a full licence CD) to the main system drive. rebooted...moved
extentions and software for the sonnet G4 card from the previous system
folder to the new one... switched start disks back to main system 4gb. It
worked just fine. Afterward I backed up the system to a freshly initialized
"EMS" drive.
I had two hick-ups...
(1) I had to re-install the Asante network card's software to get my MAC
back on the home network. (2) I erased the Quicktime folder with the
previous system folder when I trashed it post-install success. A fresh
download from apple solved that.
Things to look out for if you are doing this:
(1) Mac OS CD - it really needs to be a full version...not a system disk
from a I-Mac, G3, or G4. Burned versions don't work all the time either. I
finally found a friend with the real deal who moved on to OS X.
(2) Processor software and Tobisha CD driver - having the 2nd drive to start
from was a life saver. I was able to boot in the old system by holding
option + command + shift + delete to get to the next drive in the chain (my
"EMS" drive) then I moved the processor and CD drivers to the new extentions
folder. Re-boot to the OS 9 drive was flawless after this move.
I have one thing to say to all of you on the list who helped...
THANK YOU! I could not have done it without the information found here.
Alan C.
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