A big thank you to John, Harry and Brian for advice on my question! Will know more about the true situation by tomorrow night (I hope)!
Thanks again! LLL On Monday, February 7, 2005, at 09:40 PM, John Robinson wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> Am going to work this week for a company that has a G4 with 2 >> internal drives. One of the drives (not partitioned) has 2 OSX >> system folders on it, one is 10.2.3(I think) and one is Panther. >> Classic is installed on this drive as well. The other drive has only >> 9.2.2 on it, so that's not a problem. How they ended up with 2 OSX >> systems on one drive is a mystery to me. Whoever did the >> installations is long gone! >> >> They tell me they have had LOTS of crashes and if I'm going to >> produce their prep work, I'll have to TRY to get things running >> smoothly, as they don't have anyone else to do it. I just had a >> chance to glance at their setup so, will know more later. My >> question is - can I safely just trash the old system folder without >> any residual pieces hanging around? I've been working in 10.2.8 - >> but I'm not that familiar with the "inner workings" of OSX yet. I've >> certainly found it's nothing like maneuvering around OS9! I all else >> fails, will an archive and reinstall of Panther retain all their >> current settings, network, users, etc.? >> >> I've already suggested they buy Disk Warrior, Tech Tool Pro, etc., >> since they have nothing for repair except Apple's utilities. >> However, I feel the problem with the system folders needs to be >> addressed before I try any of the above. >> >> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
