[question] Osx 10.3 Partitioning Question

I have just installed OSX Panther on my iMac. Now, for some reason, there is an OS9 partition as well. I have no idea why, and I cannot get rid of it. What I would like to do eventually, is install OS9 as well, so I could switch between the 2. I have both the OS9 Install, and Recovery CD's. But, when I try to boot from either of the 2, the mac just bypasses them, and loads OSX. I don't know why. I would really like to have both installed. If anyone could assist me, I would greatly appreciate it.

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#150741

No one can help me out here?

#152460

er, yeah, I believe you cannot boot to OS 9 once OS X is installed. Instead you run OS 9 through an emulator running on top of OS X. I have yet to do that myself as I have absolutely no need, but that is what I have heard is the deal. Sorry I don't know more but I hope that at least starts the ball rolling in the right direction for you...

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#152467

i believe that if you hold 9 while booting, it will boot into os9. I am not positive, but its worth a try. I know that you hold c to boot to a cd.

#152489

Hi, if I understand well, you have installed the bosth systems on a single partition. I am not a Mac user, because I have not enough a Mac, but I configured a Mac of one friend. If you need to boot another system, you need to access 'startup disk'. If you are in OSX, choose startup disk (SD) from 'system preferences' and chose the way to 'System Folder' of your System 9 (unfortunatelly, you need at least System 9.1 or above - System 9.0 or below is not good). In system 9.x, you need to acces the 'Startup Disk' control panel and indicate a way to the 'System' folder of your OSX (see the difference - between "System Folder" of OS9 and "System" of OSX). Next boot will in your chosen system. Excuse my bad English. I hope you understand me.

#152496

Unfortunatly, I don't have OS9 installed at all....I have both the OS9 Restore CD as well as the install itself. I have tried using the "Hold C" key on boot, and it just bypasses the setup all together and boots right into OSX. I have seen this emulator that you're talking about, but I'm not sure how to set that all up. So, if you guys have any other thoughts on this, please let me know.

#155327

it should have chose to format the drive during the OSX install.

If you really do still have an OS9 partition, just go into system prefs, startup disk. And choose the OS9 system folder, and reboot if you wish to go into OS9.

Also, the "emulator" is not some 3rd party thing as non mac users are making it sound. It's the classic interface, and can be run by going into the sys prefs, then going to 'Classic', there you can set the options for it and boot it up inside of OSX.

If you have no use for the OS9 partition, i recommend just booting from your OSX CD, and doing a format by either selecting the option to format during install, or before the install, go into 'Disk Utility' which is included on the CD.

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