"Assuming you have OS 9 (9.2 is the best) put the System Install in the CD drive and restart the system. Hold the C key to start up from the CD. Install the OS and restart the computer. It should come up in OSX. If it is in OS 9 go to the startup disk control panel and select the OS X as the preferred start up and restart.
This should solve your problem."
But someone else has said he has heard of this technique causing major problems and not to do it. Whom should I believe? I am really sorry to be so ignorant, not to mention behind the times, but this is where I happen to be, unfortunately. I can use any help that comes along. Thanks again! Bill
Hi there, me again after a long absence. I have just taken the plunge and bought Jaguar, after running happily in 9 for quite a while. The water is a good deal colder than I thought it was going to be.
I have 2 physical hard drives, one of which I added to serve as a general backup, and the other of which has been in three equal 4G partitions (this is how it came to me as a gift last winter). I installed Jaguar onto the same partition where the OS 9 system folder was located. When I got going, it turned out that Jaguar could not find any of the applications I have been using, which were on a different partition. So I wiped the partitions out and re-installed, after backing everything up again. I was under the (apparently mistaken) impression that the Classic environment would install automatically from somewhere within Jaguar, but when I tried to import mailboxes from OE into Mail, the system told me there is no Classic installed.
So: Do I somehow re-install 9 now "underneath" Jaguar, or do I wipe the drive again and reinstall 9, then re-install Jaguar, or something else?
I also assume I will have to re-install all the applications rather than just dragging them from the backup disc?
Two other things: I read somewhere the other day that Norton Utilities should not be used in OS X, period. I had been using version 5, and wonder if the basic repair (Disk Doctor) and optimize (Speed Disk) functions I have been using are now available within the OS or should I get something else, or is it OK to stick with what I have?
And does anyone here have any experience with OpenOffice or (I think) NeoOffice, and is there an open-source version of Acrobat? Since the computer was free to me a year ago and had a bunch of stuff already installed, I do not have the original install discs, so in my ongoing quest to spend as little money as humanly possible, I am thinking that open source might work, since I don't do much that is terribly out of the way.
As always, my sincere thanks for all offers of help!
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Bill Spencer in vaguely wintry NH B&W G3/400mhz/rev2/385mb/12G + 20G HDs/Jaguar, sort of
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