Thanks for your suggestions. Dual booting had not occurred to me. That would probably be best I think. Here is the scenario:
I have Tiger installed on my first HDD (60GB), This came preloaded and I have no discs. I now have the original G4 MDD install discs that revert me to Panther. Can i preserve what I have and partition and install Panther or will I have to start from scratch and need a copy of 10.4? Evan On Dec 5, 12:41 am, "David W. Morris" <bbh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 4, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > > > > > I'm running Leopard 10.5.8 on my Macs, but I also have Tiger 10.4.11 > > on another partition. When I do audio work, I use Tiger since my M- > > Audio 2496 PCI card only seems to function up to but not including > > Leopard. > > > Maybe you could do a similar thing for your Panther application? But > > you would already need another partition for Panther ... maybe add > > another SATA drive? > > My Dual 1.25GHz G4 MDD PowerMac arrived from the eBay seller with > MacOSX10.2.1 and MacOS9.2.2 installed on the same partition, which I > thought was strange, but it worked. I later installed 10.5.8 on a > separate partition and MorphOS2.7 on yet another partition. When > using the boot with the Option key depressed function to get to the > boot selector screen, it would not show the MacOS9.2.2 option to boot > from. Only the MacOSX10.2.1, MacOSX10.5.8 and MorphOS2.7 boot > partitions would show up. To boot into MacOS9.2.2 I would have to > choose it from the Startup Disk option in the System Preferences. > > Now I am in the process of setting up separate hard drives for each > OS, instead of partitions on one drive. Since MorphOS2.7 is so small > and efficient, it will easily fit on my 6gb hard drive pulled from a > G3 iMac and have tons of room for files and applications. I will put > MacOS9.2.2 on a 120gb drive and MacOSX 10.5.8 on my 160gb drive. I > might even set up Ubuntu PPC 10.10 on yet another hard drive, since > the MDD G4 PowerMac easily holds 4 hard drives, but that might be just > a waste of space and extra heat producing hardware since I hardly ever > use Linux. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
