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ollywilson2003

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Mar 15, 2003
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Im running an original 17" iMac 800mhz with jaguar and im wondering how to uninstall Mac OS 9 as I have no use for it anymore and its using up valuable disc space. When I try to drag the system folder to the trash (even in root user) it says its required by the system.

Cheers,
 
you could always do a

sudo rm -rf /"System Folder"/

Don't ask me if that works, I'm not about to try :)

edit: added sudo
 
Originally posted by andyduncan
you could always do a

sudo rm -rf /"System Folder"/ [edit by sf] this must be done in terminal if you didn't know [/edit]

Don't ask me if that works, I'm not about to try :)

edit: added sudo
this is how i did it the first time. it does work. you might also want to delete the OS 9 apps folder the same way, and the OS 9 desktop, and so on.
 
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