Having recently came into posession of an old G4 with this 9.2 on it, and no
Mac OS X, I want to be able to set up a dual boot system. When inserting the
OS X cd, it tells me I have to format my existing HD, as its on a standard
MacOS format not extended. I have to think that I will have to format the HD
but what should I install first, Mac OS 9 or X for a dual boot system as the
drivers for the printer and Quark 5 arent X compatible yet.

On 29/6/03 10:16 pm, in article
3eff5733$0$11386$cc9e4d1f[at]news.dial.pipex.com, "Centurion"
<james[at]devlin.net> wrote:

> Having recently came into posession of an old G4 with this 9.2 on it, and no
> Mac OS X, I want to be able to set up a dual boot system. When inserting the
> OS X cd, it tells me I have to format my existing HD, as its on a standard
> MacOS format not extended. I have to think that I will have to format the HD
> but what should I install first, Mac OS 9 or X for a dual boot system as the
> drivers for the printer and Quark 5 arent X compatible yet.
>


if you are going to be doing a lot of rebooting, swapping between the two
systems a lot, I would consider partitioning the drive, just because this
allows you to do an option-start when you reboot and be able to select
which system to use at that point (which I used to find very convenient when
I had a OS9 booting capable machine). It can also be useful if something
goes awfully wrong with either system. Other than that, as far as I know it
makes no odds which system you install first. I think, again, I would
install 9 first so you could later designate it straight away as your
Classic system folder when you install X. But you can do this afterwards
anyway so it is probably not very important.








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flavio matani
classical guitar tuition/performance
homepge.mac.com/flavio_matani/guitar/


take the obvious bit out to reply...

flavio wrote:
>
> On 29/6/03 10:16 pm, in article
> 3eff5733$0$11386$cc9e4d1f[at]news.dial.pipex.com, "Centurion"
> <james[at]devlin.net> wrote:
>
> > Having recently came into posession of an old G4 with this 9.2 on it, and no
> > Mac OS X, I want to be able to set up a dual boot system. When inserting the
> > OS X cd, it tells me I have to format my existing HD, as its on a standard
> > MacOS format not extended. I have to think that I will have to format the HD
> > but what should I install first, Mac OS 9 or X for a dual boot system as the
> > drivers for the printer and Quark 5 arent X compatible yet.
> >
>
> if you are going to be doing a lot of rebooting, swapping between the two
> systems a lot, I would consider partitioning the drive, just because this
> allows you to do an option-start when you reboot and be able to select
> which system to use at that point (which I used to find very convenient when
> I had a OS9 booting capable machine). It can also be useful if something
> goes awfully wrong with either system. Other than that, as far as I know it
> makes no odds which system you install first. I think, again, I would
> install 9 first so you could later designate it straight away as your
> Classic system folder when you install X. But you can do this afterwards
> anyway so it is probably not very important.
>
> --
>
> flavio matani
> classical guitar tuition/performance
> homepge.mac.com/flavio_matani/guitar/
>
> take the obvious bit out to reply...

Good advice, as I have learned. Having both systems on one
partition really sucks. There always seems to be some conflict
issue that buggers things up.

Bob