Reinstalling Classic environment

[vtprinz]

I got rid of classic on my G3 iBook a long time ago, as I never used anything that needed it. I've since upgraded it from Jaguar to Panther, and now I have an assignment for class that needs a program that only runs in classic.

I tried using the software restore discs that came with my iBook, but it said it couldn't install onto my hard drive (null). Can I install classic with the Panther discs or is there some other way to get the software restore disc to work?

 

[Jaffa Cake]

In with the Panther CDs should be an 'Additional Software' CD – run the installer on this and that will put Classic on your machine.

 

[LeeTom]

you can use terminal to copy just the Classic disk image to your hard drive, and then mount it and copy the system folder over.

cd /Volumes/"name of cd"/.images
cp OS9General.dmg ~/Desktop

Your CD may vary slightly, but basically you copy the OS9-sounding DMG file from a folder called .images. You'll have to use 'ls -al' to see the hidden directories.

Lee Tom