Where oh where is OS 9.2?

Warren Roos · #1 11-10-2003, 10:42 AM

Where oh where is OS 9?

One of our systems had a very bad crash and we had to reload everything from the OS on up. Never had a lick of trouble w/ OS 10 but nothing would right it, no pre binding root command, etc.

When the re-installed OS was up and running we had no OS 9. The apple disks did not install it. Not good.

Is there a way to add OS 9 for the app or two that we still use in 9?

Thanks

Ken_Bennett · #2 11-10-2003, 11:00 AM

Go to the Apple web site:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120030

You can download it from there.

Ken

Warren Roos · #3 11-10-2003, 07:10 PM

Thanks

Warren Roos · #4 11-16-2003, 04:33 PM

It apperas that 9.1 (then 9.2) can't be installed. I am running panther3.1. No classic? There must be a way. Apple site does not yeild info on how to do it.

Jeff_Donald · #5 11-16-2003, 07:35 PM

In System Preferences, the preference pane for Classic is missing? You may need to install OS 9.x.x first then install Panther. When I did a clean install of Panther the installer script left my OS 9 partition alone. But on a G4 Powerbook Classic runs fine with 10.3.1

Al_Goldis · #6 11-16-2003, 07:51 PM

OS X disks, either Jaguar or Panther, are just that: OS X. They don't include OS 9.

The OS 9 updates available for download at Apple are just that: updates. They only update an existing install of OS 9 to a newer version.

If you have wiped the drive and lost your installation of OS 9 then you need to install it from either the software restore disks that came with the machine (assuming it came with OS 9 and the ability to boot from it) or else a stand alone OS 9 installer disk.

Classic requires 9.1 or newer, and I believe 9.2.2 is recommended.

Jeff_Schewe · #7 11-16-2003, 08:21 PM

Actually, 10.2 and 10.3 retail install disks include a separate "Classic" install. These will only install classic on machines that won't boot 9.x but on those machines that will boot from 9.x you CAN install classic on the OS X boot drive and copy the 9.x components to another 9.x bootable partition. Pretty sure the Apple web site has info on this as does the retail install disks.