Re: about OS 9 Installation
Re: about OS 9 Installation
- Subject: Re: about OS 9 Installation
- From: Jeff LaMarche <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 21:36:32 -0700
On Saturday, April 27, 2002, at 08:13 PM, Antonio Inojal wrote:
Sorry if this is not a cocoa topic, but this is the closest I could
find to humanity. I installed OS X before OS 9. I have been wanting to
install OS 9 but at the end it says that I do not need to install it. I
guess that it sees the newer OS and doesn't let me do it. I know I
should have done it backwards. I started working on OS X and now have
some things which I do not want to throw away. The thing is if anyone
knows how to install OS 9 while still having OS X software I would
appreaciate it very much in telling me.
Tony
P.S. And no, I booted from the cd while making the OS 9 install.
Hmmm... your experience is, I think, atypical. I have done it both
ways - installing OS 9 first and then installing OS X (I did it this way
with DP4, PB, and my first 10.0 install), and also have installed OS X
first and then added OS 9 after the fact (did this with my TiBook when I
got it (before OS X came installed) - I initialized the hard drive, then
installed 10 thinking I was done with 9, then added 9 after the fact). I
did not receive any message or error, so I'm guessing there's something
about your specific configuration that it doesn't like, or that makes it
think that you've already got OS 9 installed. OS 9 and OS X are
installed in entirely different locations, so it seems extremely
unlikely that the OS 9 installer would see an OS X installation at all,
never mind see it as an OS 9 installation. Perhaps there is a preference
file or a resource that got copied to your drive that is causing it to
think OS 9 is already installed. I don't think anyone is going to be
able to accurately diagnose what's causing your situation from the
information you gave, but hopefully it will be helpful to know that it
is not typical or normal.
Did you initialize your hard drive before installing X, or is there a
chance there are some remnants of an older installation hanging around?
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