I'd do this because several times this approach has saved the day. When I've pushed an unsupported OS X install too far, to the point of kernel panic during early boot (checked in verbose mode), and not even getting as far as single-user log in, I've been able to reboot the system in OS 9, work directly on the OS X partition to trash or replace the offending files, like wonky kext files, and then restart into OS X to complete the tidy-up. But YMMV.
Some applications you can drag-copy. Others are more complicated. It depends.
HTH,
Gerald WW
On 3 Dec 2004, at 03:34, Doug Throp wrote:
1. I have an 8500 with G4/450 MHz, 2 SCSI HDs, Radeon 7000, OS 10.2.8. I'm finally planning on upgrading to Panther (using XPostFacto). Currently my hard drives are divided into several partitions. I'm considering reformatting the Seagate Barracuda (removing it's partitions) and then doing a clean install on that HD. The Seagate is only about 17 GB. Because of that, I think I should put alias's of my photo and music folders from the other HD into Panther folders. Does this sound like a reasonable and safe approach? (My current main HD is a slower, Quantum Atlas IV with 34 GB.)
2. After upgrading to the newest version of Panther, can I safely copy applications from my OS 10.2.8 partition to the Panther applications folder, or are there other complicating factors I don't know about?
3. Would I be better off copying my OS 10.2.8 partition to the initialized Seagate HD, and then try upgrading it to Panther?
Thanks for your expected advice,
Doug
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