If not your choices are erasing the whole drive & checking Install OS9 drivers, then installing OS9 & OSX again, hopefully you have the OSX Istall Disk & both that & the OS9 Discs are the right ones. I called a local computer repair shop and they want almost $300 to install it for me, which is twice what I paid for everything, so I'd really like to be able to handle this myself.įirst, in Disk Utility, highlight the whole drive, click on the blue Info icon above, see if OS9 drivers are installed. I thank you in advance to anyone who is willing to help me out or point me in the right direction. The reason I bought this system and need OS 9 is because I am needing to run a very old art processing program that can only run in OS 9. ? (btw, TY to Robbie Goodwin for those posts)
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My second question then, which I really need a step-by-step guide is, How to boot to each system? The same poster said " You will be able to choose either system to boot with by using the Startup Disk preference in either system." I don't know what that means. I did find one thread that said "choosing the installer's Option button and selecting Clean System Installation will allow it to add the earlier version (in this case 9) alongside the later version (in this case X)". I found a couple of old threads archived, but the How To links people referred to no longer work. I need a step by step guide as to how to install OS 9 alongside OS X so that it can boot to either, and then, how to get it to boot to one or the other.
I am new to Macs and have purchased an old iBook G3/600 (M7701LL/A) which I know was originally capable of booting to OS 9 or OS X, however I am buying it seller refurbished with a clean install of OS X 10.4 Tiger only.