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Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK

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DJW wrote:

> Do I gather that it really does not matter from you first saying OS 9 
> should be install and then later you said OS 10 first then 9? Will 
> work either way. Like I said if I can install 9.2.1 and then update 
> either before or after 10.3 I would be happy and all OK. Another 
> thought if I used my 10.3 install discs and wiped the hard drive and 
> checked the OS 9 box and then went ahead and installed 10.3 and then 
> later just dragged a copy of the original OS 9 system folder would 
> that work? I dragged copied the OS 9 current system folder over to an 
> external USB hard drive and it copied but does not show as ?Blessed? 
> with the 9 logo on the folder. Makes me want to the old days where a 
> simple drag and drop of a system folder onto a volume made it 
> bootable. Have had Macs from early OS 4 to beyond and think I remember 
> up to 8.5 being drag able but not sure about 9. All you may have 
> needed to switch an OS over to a particular machine was a possible 
> enabler file for that machine in the system folder also a drag and 
> droppable thing.


What has always worked for me was to format it with the OS X disk utility
and check the OS9 drivers box.

Then install OS9 from a CD.

Then install OSX from a CD or DVD depending upon the computer.

I have only done it the other way once, that was for a G4 Mini I just got,
but it won't boot OS9 anyway. 

Geoff.


-- 
Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379

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Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK DJW <ddwr@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-05 09:10 -0800
  Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-05 18:04 +0000
  Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-05 10:14 -0800
    Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-05 19:04 +0000
    Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-01-06 17:12 +0000
      Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-06 11:38 -0800
        Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-06 21:59 +0000
  Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK DJW <ddwr@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-06 09:50 -0800
  Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-01-07 12:27 +1100
  Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK DJW <ddwr@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-07 08:01 -0800
    Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-07 16:39 +0000
    Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2014-01-08 06:52 +0100
      Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-07 23:08 -0800
      Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-08 13:42 -0500
        Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-08 18:54 +0000
          Re: Need to do a clean install on an old IBOOK nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-08 14:27 -0500

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