Asking for some advice with OS 9

[KawaiiAurora]

Hey!

I was able to get OS 9 up and running thanks to the Unsupported G4 disc the folks at MacOS9Lives provide. I was quite dumbfounded seeing OS 9 boot on my 17" PowerBook G4 as Aluminium Books don't like OS 9 (natively at least). Decided to pop it on a USB pendrive and viola, it worked! Airport doesn't work of course and the headphone jack either but that's no biggie. Everything is real fast even from USB but I have some questions..

1. I use a Toshiba TransMemory 8GB pendrive. It's enough for me and speed is decent BUT will using an OS off of it kill it?
2. If using it off USB isn't practical, I seriously need some advice on how to backup my Leopard parition.. Don't have a Leopard DVD so I'd like to backup my Leopard parition to a disk image and restore that via Tiger after installing it on a small partition (like it is now). The Tiger DVD i have doesn't like reading FAT32 drives and the 4GB limit would make backups useless anyways. Need to do this to install OS 9 drivers :/ I should be receiving a USB 2.0 PCMIA card soon so that will make the ordeal easier!
3. I'd appreciate any other solutions to avoid nuking my HDD

Thanks,
Aurora

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[AmazingHenry]

If using it off USB isn't practical, I seriously need some advice on how to backup my Leopard parition.. Don't have a Leopard DVD so I'd like to backup my Leopard parition to a disk image and restore that via Tiger after installing it on a small partition (like it is now). The Tiger DVD i have doesn't like reading FAT32 drives and the 4GB limit would make backups useless anyways. Need to do this to install OS 9 drivers :/ I should be receiving a USB 2.0 PCMIA card soon so that will make the ordeal easier!

This is the one thing I can help you with.

Backing up your Leopard partition is easy. You can put it all into a .dmg file. First, boot into Leopard. Next, open Disk Utility. Select your Leopard partition in the sidebar and click "New Image".

Now set up your options like this (you can name the file whatever you want):

Click "Save" and Disk Utility will start putting your whole Leopard partition in a .dmg file, which you can use to restore the partition later in Tiger.

IMPORTANT: When the time comes to restore, don't just open the .dmg and copy the files to a partition. You have to use Disk Utility for that. You may of heard of the Restore function. If not, I'll show you how to do it.

 

[KawaiiAurora]

This is the one thing I can help you with.

Backing up your Leopard partition is easy. You can put it all into a .dmg file. First, boot into Leopard. Next, open Disk Utility. Select your Leopard partition in the sidebar and click "New Image".
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Now set up your options like this (you can name the file whatever you want):
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Click "Save" and Disk Utility will start putting your whole Leopard partition in a .dmg file, which you can use to restore the partition later in Tiger.

IMPORTANT: When the time comes to restore, don't just open the .dmg and copy the files to a partition. You have to use Disk Utility for that. You may of heard of the Restore function. If not, I'll show you how to do it.

Thanks Sems quite simple. Yeah, ik how to use restore; the copy of Leopard I have on my PowerBook G4 is restored via an HFS+ pen drive and the Tiger DVD. Might do it if I can justify the use of OS 9.2.2 enough.

 

[iModFrenzy]

How are the graphics on OS 9?

I'm trying to do this with my PB G4 12" 1.5ghz atm so far I've had no luck booting it. Maybe I just did something wrong...

 

[AmazingHenry]

How are the graphics on OS 9?

I'm trying to do this with my PB G4 12" 1.5ghz atm so far I've had no luck booting it. Maybe I just did something wrong...

It doesn't work on all unsupported Macs. It only works on the first Macs that didn't support OS 9. The aluminum PB that @KawaiiAurora is using must be from 2003. Yours may be from 2005.

 

[KawaiiAurora]

It doesn't work on all unsupported Macs. It only works on the first Macs that didn't support OS 9. The aluminum PB that @KawaiiAurora is using must be from 2003. Yours may be from 2005.

How are the graphics on OS 9?

I'm trying to do this with my PB G4 12" 1.5ghz atm so far I've had no luck booting it. Maybe I just did something wrong...

Graphics are okay because the 4MX is supported on OS 9. I'm not sure about OpenGL peformance as I haven't tried that yet. I get the proper resolution and colour tho so it's probably working fine.