"Classic Enviroment"

[greenday123]

Ok, i held down C and pressed the power button but it didnt boot from the cd, it just went into OS X, i just tried 3 times

 

[nomar383]

Ok, i held down C and pressed the power button but it didnt boot from the cd, it just went into OS X, i just tried 3 times

You said it was a PowerMac install disk? And try holding the option key down

 

[greenday123]

Held down option, it only gave me an option to boot into OS X so i guess the disc cant be booted off of, yes its a Power Mac G4 install disc.

 

[Xavier]

You can always get some of those emulators that are floating around the internet. I have never tried to use one yet, but have considered it for awhile. And they should work with leopard.

 

[TEG]

Oh, your iBook is too new to run boot up OS9. You could just drag the "System Folder" to your hard drive from the disc and try getting OS X to set that as the Classic System Folder for your system.

TEG

 

[nomar383]

Seems like it doesn't want to work lol. Maybe get a System 9 disk of eBay? They can't be that expensive.

 

[nomar383]

Oh, your iBook is too new to run boot up OS9. You could just drag the "System Folder" to your hard drive from the disc and try getting OS X to set that as the Classic System Folder for your system.

TEG

He already tried that.

 

[CarlosG]

On a computer with a PowerPC processor, install OS X first. This is an old OS X CD that supports classic.

When in Mac OS X insert the OS X CD. A window will open and there will be an option for Additional Installs. This should include Classic as an option.

The installation of OS 9 must happen from within OS X.

Alternatively, just use sheepshaver.

 

[danny_w]

On a computer with a PowerPC processor, install OS X first. This is an old OS X CD that supports classic.

When in Mac OS X insert the OS X CD. A window will open and there will be an option for Additional Installs. This should include Classic as an option.

The installation of OS 9 must happen from within OS X.

Alternatively, just use sheepshaver.

That is what I said!

 

[greenday123]

I tried that additional installs thing from OS X install discs, i tried it from A panther install disc and a tiger install disc neither of them had an option for Os 9, or classic enviroment or anything like that. I guess ill have to buy a os 9 disc from ebay then.

 

[nomar383]

lol Do not reply to posts, unless you have read the entire thread and can reply in the correct context. Thanks!

 

[nomar383]

Yeah, if you can't boot from the OS 9 disk, there is probably an issue with it (at least on computers that we know OS 9 should run natively on)

 

[Eric5h5]

I tried that additional installs thing from OS X install discs, i tried it from A panther install disc and a tiger install disc neither of them had an option for Os 9, or classic enviroment or anything like that. I guess ill have to buy a os 9 disc from ebay then.

1) Put in Additional Software disc.
2) Double-click on Install Additional Software.

It would be nice if, every time this topic comes up, people would stop saying things like "Get an OS 9 disc", because it's not necessary and doesn't work anyway.

I know a couple of people have already said this, but there seems to be a problem with listening to them.

--Eric

 

[greenday123]

And thats exactly what i did, and like i said, there was no option to install Classic Enviroment, OS 9, or anything like that.

 

[Dane D.]

If I remember correctly, if you want to install OS 9 on a HD with OS X, it needs the OS 9 drivers installed when the disk was formatted when OS X was installed.

 

[nomar383]

Oh wait! I seem to remeber an option in disk utility from the OS X install disk that allows you to "Install Drivers for OS 9" when you format your HD for a clean install. Check on that