Question on disk formatting

Hi all- I installed Os 10.2 on my Wallstreet (192MB ram) and it is slow. So, realizing the error of my ways, I'd like to install OS 9. Any thoughts on best way to approach this? Sean -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.c

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Well, I'd try adding more RAM before losing OS X. I personally prefer OS X over OS 9, but that's on a Lombard 400 with 192 MB of RAM, so your mileage may vary. Also, you can get a processor upgrade from Other World Computing, that'll bump it up to, I believe, 450 or 500 MHz. BTW, which WS are y

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I have the OS 9 cd, but am deraling with a flaky cd-rom that doesn't seem to want to let me boot from the OS 9 cd-is there afloppy image i could download from the apple site? On 12/20/05, Yersinia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sean writes, > > So, realizing the error of my ways, I'd like to install

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Apple doesn't have the whole OS on their site. To be more precise, only the updates are available from Apple. Personally, and I've said this before, my take is to upgrade the system hardware, before downgrading the OS. My Lombard flies when I boot into 9.2, but it's not as productive for me. Th

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Well, I'd try adding more RAM before losing OS X. I agree. I found a 300 Mhz Wallstreet with 512 MB RAM to be a quite satisfactory OS X 'Book. I don't agree with the guy who said no WS is decent with OS X. It's certainly 'X-challenged' unless it's configged right, though BTW, which

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One great thing abaout the 233 cacheless "dog" is that it will upgrade to the 250 and 292 Mhz processor card. I suppose that means that it ups the bus speed to 83. Paul Nelson -- On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Gene Osburn wrote: > > > Well, I'd try adding more RAM before losing OS X. > > I agree. I fou

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What does any of this have to do with "disk formatting"? At 17:01:31 -0800 on 12/22/05, "Paul F. Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One great thing abaout the 233 cacheless "dog" is that it will upgrade to the 250 and 292 Mhz processor card. I suppose that means that it ups the bus speed to

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On Dec 22, 2005, at 4:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does any of this have to do with "disk formatting"? Because the original question dealt with disk formatting, later the discussion veered off and no one changed the subject line, which is how it goes like 98% of the time on every