Re: Can OS 9 be installed?

2004-07-06 Thread Mikael Byström
Laurent, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I can go ahead pretty quickly since my 3rd party apps are on a separate partition and I don't need to re-install them if I decide to erase the OS X partition. Doesn't any of your apps affect the system or library? Many apps do, though simpler apps may contain

Re: Apple Still Sells OS 9 Bootable G4s ( was: Can OS 9 be installed?)

2004-07-01 Thread Al Poulin
The Apple Store and the various catalog vendors still sell new, dual bootable G4 towers with single or dual 1.25GHz processors. At the Apple Store on line, the dual boot 1.25GB machines are custom built. Neat! Aaron Willems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a related note, does Apple install OS 9

Re: Can OS 9 be installed?

2004-06-28 Thread Donald Keenan
On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 04:14 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: You can certainly install OS 9 after OS X. Can this be done only if the hard drive is, or has already been, partitioned? I had always been under the impression that OS 9 had to be installed first. This question came up because the

Re: Can OS 9 be installed?

2004-06-28 Thread Aaron Willems
Can this be done only if the hard drive is, or has already been, partitioned? I had always been under the impression that OS 9 had to be installed first. To make a new partition on your computer, without reformatting your hard drive, you should check out this cool program called VolumneWorks.

Re: Can OS 9 be installed?

2004-06-28 Thread Donald Keenan
On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 07:44 PM, Aaron Willems wrote: OS 9 on all new machines is for running classic only. If you have your software restore disk, and you select customize, you will see the option to install classic. Just remember all new machines only boot into OS X. I hope you are not

Re: Can OS 9 be installed?

2004-06-28 Thread Aaron Willems
NO, when you install classic, you install a full version of OS 9. So as long as you have your software restore CD's, your good to go. And, yes Classic (OS 9) is an emulator under OS X, just like Virtual PC. -- Aaron Willems I'm confused though. I thought Classic could only be invoked if a full

Re: Can OS 9 be installed?

2004-06-28 Thread Brian L. Matthews
And, yes Classic (OS 9) is an emulator under OS X, just like Virtual PC. No, it's not. Virtual PC has to emulate the processor, Classic doesn't (for a PowerPC application, for a 68k application it does, but the same thing happens when booted into OS 9). Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Can OS 9 be installed?

2004-06-28 Thread Andrew Kershaw
And, yes Classic (OS 9) is an emulator under OS X, just like Virtual PC. No, it's not. Virtual PC has to emulate the processor, Classic doesn't (for a PowerPC application, for a 68k application it does, but the same thing happens when booted into OS 9). Brian Classic is more like a Hardware

Re: Can OS 9 be installed?

2004-06-28 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 5:48 PM -0700 6/28/04, Brian L. Matthews wrote: And, yes Classic (OS 9) is an emulator under OS X, just like Virtual PC. No, it's not. Virtual PC has to emulate the processor, Classic doesn't (for a PowerPC application, for a 68k application it does, but the

Re: Can OS 9 be installed?

2004-06-28 Thread Donald Keenan
On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 09:46 PM, Andrew Kershaw wrote: Classic is more like a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) than an emulator. It runs a native PowerPC binary on the CPU, but isn't allowed to access hardware directly. That's why some of the older OS 8/9 apps that tried to take direct

Re: Can OS 9 be installed?

2004-06-28 Thread Clark Martin
At 3:06 PM -0500 6/28/04, macnifico wrote: I bought a Pismo with OS X.3, but no OS 9. Can I install it now? Problems? Tips? Best regards. Shouldn't be a problem as long as the OS 9 hard disk drivers were installed during format. If not, it may still be possible to install it but only for use

Re: Can OS 9 be installed?

2004-06-28 Thread Clark Martin
At 5:00 PM -0700 6/28/04, Aaron Willems wrote: NO, when you install classic, you install a full version of OS 9. So as long as you have your software restore CD's, your good to go. And, yes Classic (OS 9) is an emulator under OS X, just like Virtual PC. Classic is not an emulator. It is run as a