I'm no expert, but I've looked through and the steps look OK. Just a couple of thoughts:
> I have a SM4200DT with 144mb RAM, a Maxtor IDE 8.2GB HD, an internal Yamaha > 8824e CDRW... This internal CD rewriter is SCSI or IDE? If its IDE, then there will be no more IDE slots left to install the second hard disc into, and you'll have to lose either the rewriter or the old drive. > 12. Install OS9.0 on new hard disk from CD (Question? Do I have to boot > from the OSv9.0CD to install it? - I hadn't planned to.) No, you don't, you can just select Install Mac OS 9 from the CD; in fact, you can even install it onto the same drive as the current OS is running off (I went as far as the step where it told me that all running apps needed to be quit, and then aborted the install), presumably it'd rename the old System Folder and create a new one, which would become active after reboot. When I fitted a new hard disc, I installed it straight to the new hard disc after booting off the CD, and then just copied everything off the old drive onto the new one, so as to be able to discard the drive and connect the CD-ROM drive back where the old drive had temporarily been connected. I then copied all the prefs, apps and such stuff into their places and kept on working as if nothing had changed. The only problem I did have was that all my aliases no longer worked (in the Apple menu, in the OpenUsing folder, and in my Internet Startup app's prefs); the new hard disc partitions had different names to my older drive; whether using the same name as the old drive would work or not, I don't know, I suspect the Mac would realise nevertheless that I'd changed drive. Arg. However, you may wish to re-install apps just for the sake of cleanness. > 17. Reboot from old HD, which uses Netscape 4.79 to download and install > Netscape 6.xx upgrade on new HD. No need to reboot, just run the app directly from the other drive. Unlike Windows, this just stuff just works on Macs. You'll have to recreate a Netscape user account, though, unless you move the NS preferences across. > Also there have been a couple of B-tree errors I've had to live with for a > couple of years that couldn't be corrected - I assume I'll now be able to get > rid of these. You don't run Norton then? It'd be interesting if that was something that Norton couldn't fix. - Daniel. -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
