Just want to report my experience in installing Tiger on my G4 450Mhz machine which was running 9.2.2. I believed the Tiger install instructions,which gave only two options: 1) Upgrading from 10.1 or later, or 2) installing on a drive with no OSX installed, in which case you are assured that the install will completely erase your hard drive. I obediently backed up all 10 Gigs of stuff, and pulled the trigger on the Tiger install. Installation went smoothly, except I never saw the screens that the instructions described. I was a little surprised when a screen came up saying that there was xxx space available on the drive. Why would it care how much space was available when it was going to erase everything anyway? To make a short story shorter, when the install was complete, it was basically "Fooled you, we didn't actually erase anything - but we made you do a backup anyway!"
Bottom line is that all my old apps and files were intact, all the OS9 apps start up automatically in Classic, my old system folder is there, and the installation was no more trouble than updating from 9.0 to 9.2.2, just took a little longer. Why do they make such a big deal out of warning you about the disc erase when they're not really going to do it?
By the way, I am a new osx.com member, and read a lot of posts before I installed, but still didn't know what to expect (except maybe trouble). I was very pleasantly surprised.
John
Bottom line is that all my old apps and files were intact, all the OS9 apps start up automatically in Classic, my old system folder is there, and the installation was no more trouble than updating from 9.0 to 9.2.2, just took a little longer. Why do they make such a big deal out of warning you about the disc erase when they're not really going to do it?
By the way, I am a new osx.com member, and read a lot of posts before I installed, but still didn't know what to expect (except maybe trouble). I was very pleasantly surprised.
John
