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
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
on the computer. Do I
need to to buy OS 9.2, erase the hard drive, install OS 9.2, check that the
firmware is updated and then install OS 10.4?
--- On Sat, 4/4/09, emelvy halbe...@esper.com wrote:
From: emelvy halbe...@esper.com
Subject: Restoring Classic after Tiger installation
To: iMac List
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
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
