Re: Time Machine Disk Full

2009-04-04 Thread Al Poulin
On Apr 3, 4:07 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: So long as you don't need the ability to go back and get an earlier   version of a file, demote it from being a time machine drive, erase it   and add it as the new time machine drive. I thought Time Machine would

Restoring Classic after Tiger installation

2009-04-04 Thread emelvy
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

Re: Restoring Classic after Tiger installation

2009-04-04 Thread Dan
At 11:16 AM -0700 4/4/2009, emelvy wrote: 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 IF you want to be able to BOOT Mac OS 9 (on Macs that support it), THEN you MUST have already put the OS 9 driver on the

Re: Restoring Classic after Tiger installation

2009-04-04 Thread Mike Baker
I have OS 10.2 on my G4 Sawtooth but no OS 9. I bought it from someone else. God knows why OS 9 isn't on there. I don't have the OS 10.2 install disks for the computer. I want OS 9 on it to make sure I have updated firmware before I put a new processor on it. I will be installing OS 10.4 on the

Re: Restoring Classic after Tiger installation

2009-04-04 Thread Jim Emery
Here is the link to Apple firmware updates: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1395 Use System Profiler to determine current firmware. I believe you will find it under the Hardware Overview, Boot ROM version in System Profiler. The page above has links based on model to kbase articles from

Re: Restoring Classic after Tiger installation

2009-04-04 Thread Charles Davis
On Apr 4, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Mike Baker wrote: I have OS 10.2 on my G4 Sawtooth but no OS 9. I bought it from someone else. God knows why OS 9 isn't on there. I don't have the OS 10.2 install disks for the computer. I want OS 9 on it to make sure I have updated firmware before I put a