Installing OS 10.2 Jaguar

[Vickie]

I'm not clear on installing Classic Mode/OS 10.2-- I really need some good advice--
I want to install OS 10.2 Jaguar in my beige G3. I'm currently running 9.1. I'm told I have to install OS 9.2, before installing OS 10.2 if I want to be able to use my older applications (is that classic mode?). Do both systems have to be on my Mac? Can't I just clean install OS 10.2 and when I want to use my old applications, can't I just boot from an OS 9.1 CD? If both systems have to be on my Mac at the same time, how do I partition them?

Thanks for any help.
Vickie

 

[enginerd]

I just happen to install jaguar on a G3 last week (see here) , so I can give you some tips that I hope you find useful.

My G3 had 9.1 on it. When I did try to start it as classic mode, OS X displayed a warning window saying 9.2.2 was recommended. 9.1 started up with all extensions and seemed to be fine, though I didn't really run many classic apps, just IE and an old version of photoshop, to see if it worked.

If you do want to run both OS X and OS 9 apps, you have to install both. Maybe you can just boot from the OS 9 cd, but I don't think this is worth the hassle The order you do it doesn't seem to matter, but when you install jaguar, it must go on a partition less than 8gb; it simply won't install on a larger partition.
You can install both 9 and X on the same partition. I did it because I only have a total of 8.6gb space to work with. If you have enough disk space, you can create two partitions and split them just for organizational purposes.

 

[Vickie]

Thank you for sharing your experience. I guess I'll probably go ahead and install OS 9.2.2. I think your probably right, it might be too much of a hassle to boot OS 9x from a CD. It was just an idea to save space. My hard disk is only 20gb, but I should be ok.

Thanks again.
Vickie