Bailey:
It appears that you could not install your OS 9 because someone
installed OS X with no thought of using OS 9. After wiping out the old
OS or using a brand new hard drive, that person either installed an
early version of OS X and therefore prevented installing OS 9 after
that, or that person installed a later version of OS X without choosing
to install the OS 9 drivers that were available at the same time.
To make a fresh start, insert your OS 9 CD. With OS X running, find
the Startup Disk Preference in System Preferences and select the CD to
restart. After the CD gives you its OS 9 desktop, read all the
documents at the top of the CD's window, such as Before You Install,
Late Breaking News, and Install Mac OS 9.2.pdf. Take notes. Look for
information about Drive Setup, Partitions, Troubleshooting. Follow the
basic roadmap below, but use the CD Finder's and Drive Setup's Help
functions and your notes along the way for details.
Open Drive Setup. Your existing hard drive should identify itself.
Your existing partitions should show up, but you may have to use
something like "Customize Volumes" in a Function Menu. Select the
number of partitions you want, name them, use the slider bar(s) to
adjust relative sizes, for "type" select Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus).
When this is done, then you can install OS 9. With the CD still in the
machine, look for something like "Mac OS Install." You will have to
select the hard drive partition you want to use. When you see a
choice, choose Easy Install, unless you know you have a particular
reason to customize.
From reading the documents at the top of the first CD open window, you
will know to expect the process to offer OS Setup Assistant, Internet
Setup Assistant, and Register with Apple. If you do not complete all
these things at the beginning, you can catch up on them later.
I mentioned partitioning for two reasons. Partitions are more
beneficial in OS 9 than in OS X. And with 80GB of space, you may have
capacity you will never use with OS 9. If the latter is true, having a
partition of 20 or 30 GB would be handy in the future to install OS X
if you ever decide to do that. In the meantime, the spare partition
can be scratch space for Photoshop if you use that application. If you
go with just one partition/volume, you can still install OS X alongside
with your OS 9 and all its stuff, but putting OS X on a separate
partition gives you extra flexibility and safety for your data as you
change things about your drive.
By the way, if your OS 9 CD is version 9.1 or earlier, you can download
the update(s) from Apple to get up to 9.2.2 which is what you should
have if you install OS X later and want to use Classic.
Good luck,
Al Poulin
Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God,
proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.
On Sep 12, 2005, at 9:18 AM, G-List wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:41:48 EDT
Subject: Re: [G] Hard Drive Wipeout
To Clarify my intentions: I have OS X on a Yosemite. I have been
unable to
install Classic or OS 9. I want to clear the X off the partitioned 80
gig hard
drive and install OS 9.1 or 9.2. I know nothing about OS X and I have
nothing
to run on it. There is nothing else on the hard drive except X and all
the
other things pertaining to X.
Bailey
In a message dated 9/11/05 2:35:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
<< On Sep 11, 2005, at 8:27 AM, G-List wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:04:30 EDT
Subject: [G] Hard Drive Wipeout
I want to wipeout a hard drive that is in a Yosemite G3 power Mac. I
need
someone to tell me how to do this is very simple terms. Assume I know
only a
smidgen, which is true. Thanks.
What OS is running on it right now?
I don't think you want to wipe the drive if it is the only one, or the
one with the OS on it. Your computer will not start up without an OS or
at least the optical drive drivers on board. You can boot from an OS CD
or DVD (in the case of Tiger), and initialize the drive and install a
new OS if that's what you want to do, but you will lose everything on
the HD and have to reinstall the OS.
You need to be a bit more clear about your intentions, what you
actually want to do.
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