Recent content by Ianf

Dricci, I'll try to get my hands on that hardware test CD, thanks for your suggestions. macavenger, what was the exact process in terms of partioning and installation you went through to get both OS'es working on seperate partitions? Finally, I don't have to set one of the partitions to...

Hmm, actually maybe I didn't make it clear what I'm trying to do; or maybe I have a misconception. I thought in order to do the "hold down option key" at boot trick I had to install OS X and OS 9 to seperate partitions. Having them on the same partition makes it so you have to go into...

Uh yea was kind of a confusing diagram, basically I have tried: first partition: hfs+ second partition: unix (ufs or nfs?) --and-- first partition: hfs (i guess that's what it is, listed as "Macintosh Standard") second partition: unix --and-- first partition: hfs+ second...

I'm pretty sure it's not a scratch as I look at it (unless it's a really small scratch, and I am truly that unlucky). I am using a generic 9.1 (big orange nine on it) CD. I also tried my girlfriend's software install CD for her Titanium and it errors out the exact same way in the exact same...

First of all a disclaimer, I'm a PC guy who has recently gotten himself into supporting Macs (more specifically Mac OS X, which I am extremely impressed with). So forgive some of my Mac 'ignance. The system I’m working with is a newer iBook (heh, I don't know the processor speed -_-;, it has...