On Jan 19, 2005, at 5:52 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jan 19, 2005, at 3:12 PM, rb wrote:
hello all...
i have a g4 533 w/ 10.3.2 on the system drive.
i just piggy backed a 10 gig drive on the system drive as a slave,
formatted it with the os x utility (as "journaled" - what does that mean?)
and installed sys 9.2.2 from a cd onto the 10 gig drive.
was this / is this the correct procedure to have os 9 & 10 on the same machine?
(are there docs somewhere about this?)
as good as any. If you want to boot from the 9.2 install you need to have installed the OS 9 drivers during formatting. If you didn't that system folder is only usable for Classic.
As a journaled drive I don't know if OS 9 will boot either.
Journaling is a hard drive file index, it helps access to certain kinds of files and I think it helps disk recovery too, but it takes a little more memory from each partition than normal formatting. If the OS 9 drivers are on the drive it will work fine in OS9, journaled or not, but you won't get the benefit because journaling is new and OS9 is old.
You can put OS9 on the same partition as OSX, and use it for classic or to boot into OS9, but the scuttlebutt I read says that what you did is the preferred way, I guess OS9 is better on its own drive or partition. You can run OS9 apps from any drive that has OS9 drivers.
If you want to use that 10GB drive to boot into OS9, which is the only way some OS9 apps will run, then you press the "option" key when you boot the computer and it will offer a little menu of system drives you can boot from. If you want to use that drive to run Classic, you go into System Preferences in OSX and go into the Classic icon at the bottom and pick the drive from there.
how do i "use" os 9 while os x is running?
Double-click on an OS 9 app. If the system doesn't know where a valis OS 9 system folder it, it'll ask, point it to the one you just installed.
It will tell you it needs to install some things, tell it yes and soon you get a window telling you Classic is starting (click the reveal arrow to see the good ol' OS 9 boot screen, marching extension icons and all)
Then the classic app will run, at which point you'll notice your menu bar changes to the old style, rainbow apple and all.
do i install my os 9 apps on that drive and launch them?
Yep pretty much.
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