Just did all the partitioning and re-installing last night. Took all of an hour and a half. Didn't know it'd be that painless.
thanks for the tips,
neye
re: <i>some of it is worthwhile -- but Word and Excel are not in that set.</i>
heh, do I get to start the first war of zealotry at this forum ;) ???
Excel simply rocks. it is a spreadsheet program without peer. I don't care for Word, am reasonably pleased with Access, but for...
That's really my question - will <b>we</b> have to move everything back into it's original OS 9 directory structure <b>manually</b>, or is there some sort of logging mechanism that gets run during the install which will automatically replace all the files it moved to the OS 9 folder
neye
hmmmm... well, I suppose all the file formats are going to be the same for me whether I'm on OS X or OS 9.
I'll just do the partitioning thing anyways for kicks (still only have one partition on my 13 Gig drive in the dv se).
Thanks for the responses,
neye
Ok, Apple is saying that you can install the beta side-by-side with OS 9, and that if you choose that kind of installation, all the OS 9 stuff will be copied into an "OS 9" folder.
So, what happens when the beta expires on the 15th and we still don't have OS X final (god forbid)? Will it...