installing OS9 after OSX - help needed

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nigelt74

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Hi all

First off the specs

imac g3 233 bondi blue
192 mb ram
20gb harddrive (6Gb partitions)
osX 10.3

I installed osX about a year ago
The machine had previously been running OS9.0.3 and i just added OSx thinking I could still use OS9, but it seems i can't, apparently i should have upgraded os9 to version os9.1 before adding osx

Now my question is

Is there a way to upgrade my old OS9 installation

or if the above isn't possible

I have a friend with an OS9.1 disk would i be able to install this with OSx

Thanks in advance
 
Since that Mac can boot to Mac OS 9, you should be able to just boot from the OS 9 installation disc. If this is the downloaded update, Go into System Preferences-->Starup Disk from within Mac OS X. Once the startup folders are loaded in the list, you should be able to select the Mac OS 9 System Folder to start from. Select it and save everything, then restart. You should then be in Mac OS 9 and then you can perform the update. Once you've done that, you should be able to get back to OS X by going to Apple Menu-->Control Panels-->Startup Items and selecting the OS X startup folder. Then restart.

Once you've restarted, go to System Preferences-->Classic and have it find the Classic System Folder. Everything should be working then.
 
I had OS X 10.4.10 on a G4 digital audio. I booted from the Tiger 10.4.3 retail disk and used disk utility to erase the disk (I wrote zeros to the disk) in Mac OS Extended format. I cannot boot the G4 into an OS 9 disk no matter what one I try. I have tried a 9.2.2 retail disk, a 9.1 and a 9.0. but none of them boot. I have a norton boot disk that boots fine. I think the system folder on that disk is 9.1. Why can I not boot any of these disks? I do not have my original G4 install disk and hence have the retail disk.

Please help!

Cheers.
 
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