Installing OS9 AFTER installing OSX...

[mangoman]

I've got my HD partitioned. Already installed 10.2.6 on the main partition. A buddy mentioned to me that it'll now be impossible to install OS9 on the other partition.

Anyone know if that's true?

(BTW, I would've tried the install already, but that same buddy has my steenking OS9 CD!)

Thanks!

 

[MacsRgr8]

Ofcourse it's possible.
If your Mac can boot off a Mac OS 9 CD, well just do so, and install OS 9 on the other partition.
If your Mac cannot boot off the CD, you'll have to extract the hidden OS 9 (Classic) image from your restore CD (usually found on "<you CD>/.images".)
Dubbelklik that image, and copy the contents to the other partiton.

One of the many gr8 things about Mac's: it doesn't matter in which order you install the OS's!

 

[cb911]

mangoman, you can install OS 9 (or any other OS) on as many different partitions as you want.

have you tried it yet? if you encounter any problems, just report back.

 

[mangoman]

Originally posted by cb911
mangoman, you can install OS 9 (or any other OS) on as many different partitions as you want.

have you tried it yet? if you encounter any problems, just report back.

Looking to get that CD back from my buddy later this week. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the feedback, all.

Digital love,

MM

 

[rainman::|:|]

this was a big rumor a while back, i think some people over at the Applecare forum had troubles... I did it myself just to see, and it's worked perfectly for me--

pnw