I've just been playing with my dual 1.GHz MDD, currently with 512 memory (until I find my stock pile!). I want to set this up with a drive booting OS9 natively, and also to be able to use Classic in OSX Tiger. I partitioned an 80GB drive as 60/20, with a view to installing OS9 on one and Tiger on the other. I installed Tiger on the second partition successfully, and did the updates. I then put my OS9.1 cd in, and this loads, but clicking on either 'install' button tells me I already have OS 9.1 installed, and to update it to 9.2. It then tells me that the version of QuickTime is out of date and then says that Classic cannot update files in "system Folder" on "Mac OS 9.1" because the disk is read only, Trying to install an app that requires "Classic", on the Tiger partition tells me that "Classic" is NOT installed. So then I thought I'd try and install OS9 on a separate hard drive. Using the OS9 cd does not give me this option though from Tiger, and putting a Leopard drive in there also will not let me install OS9 onto the separate drive!
So then I thought I'd try booting from cd with just the empty drive in......but after the "bong" I get nothing and nothing on the display either. I'm using Apple Display monitor on ADC connector, and I also plugged in a VGA monitor thru an adapter to the DVI connector but still no video, (just in case I was for some reason not getting video on the ADC monitor but ....) So then I firewired my original iPod which has a copy of Tiger on it. This started up the MDD. I then copied the system folder from the CD onto the empty hard drive. In 'System Preferences' going to 'Startup disk' shows OS9 as a boot option. However selecting this as startup disc does not (as I really expected) boot OS9! As I've currently got the Leopard disc in there I can't check whether "Classic" will launch from the OS9 "system folder" but I suspect not. If I were to CCC the drive from my PDQ onto the "empty" drive in a firewire external box (since I have a PCMCIA FW card for the PDQ) would that then boot the MDD perhaps? The OS9 disc is a retail version AFAIK. I also tried my iMac DV OS9 disc, out of curiosity (desperation!?) - that again tells me I have OS9 installed....when I tried from Tiger.... ....am I missing something obvious here? Dan. -- 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
