Kristina,
I'd recommend reformatting the drive, and installing again from scratch. OS X installations are fairly tricky to remove properly. If the machine has been running mainly in OS X, there's not much you can keep that will be any good to you in OS 9 -- most of the nice OS X fonts aren't compatible with older versions of the OS.
The best way to reset it? Zap the PRAM (hold down Cmd-Opt-P-R right after you press the power button, and keep them down until you've heard 3 startup chimes), boot off the CD (hold down the C key after you press the power button), reformat the drive using Disk Utility (in the Utilities folder on the system CD) -- you could even do a low-level format, but that's probably unnecessary -- and then install the system and applications you want. Make sure you format the drive as Mac OS Extended (HFS+), otherwise you'll waste lots of space.
Cheers, Ben
On 12 Dec 2004, at 02:34, Kristina Rost wrote:
Hi,
The seller of my Lombard sent 3 CD's to try and boot from. One of the OS9 disks works!
Do I want to clean install and erase everything? I definitely want to get
rid of OS X and use my system and my programs...but...
can I keep some fonts...maybe this and that.
The CD that does boot up...doesnt' have a uninstall, restore or reinstall
option. I am leary of installing yet another system folder on the book...
can anyone walk me through the best re~set of this, my first, powerbook.
Thanks again to all who have helped so far...
Kristina
oh and my monitor for my G3 beige is getting dark...any suggestions for a
new one?
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