Here's a helpful hint for people who need to restore Classic after a Tiger installation on a PPC, _without_ erasing the hard drive.
Most of Apple's support information on Classic says you need to have Mac OS 9 already on your hard drive before you install Tiger -- the Mac OS X 10.4 Install DVD does not contain OS 9. Furthermore, Apple also statea in several places that if you don't have OS 9 already there, you need to erase your HD in order to install OS 9. I was reluctant to erase and searched for another way. By following links through several of the System Preferences Help files dealing with Classic, I discovered that there _is_ a way to install OS 9 and Classic on a Tiger system without erasing anything, by means of a file called SoftwareRestore.pkg from Apple Support on the web. When opened, it asks which files it should restore; I checked only the Mac OS 9 box. Then I let it go and Presto! -- in a few minutes it created a System Folder, Applications (Mac OS 9) folder, and set up Classic. I did this on a hard drive with Tiger fully installed and no erasures were required. Instructions are here: <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2475?view_locale=en_US> Follow the procedure near the bottom of the page, clicking on "Accept and Download" to obtain SoftwareRestore.dmg, and double click it to obtain SoftwareRestore.pkg. Note: My eMac came with Mac OS X 10.2 (which can restore OS 9, although as usual the instructions tell you to erase your HD first). I don't know if the procedure described above will work if your PPC Mac originally came with 10.3 or 10.4. Of course, it is not relevant to Macs with an Intel CPU. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
