installing classic on jaguar

lilbandit

lilbandit

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I've just bought a dp 867 machine on ebay, it has jaguar installed and running perfectly but classic is not working/available as there is no system folder. I assume that this means that classic/9.2 is not installed. Thing is, I didn't get any installaion discs with the machine so I can't reinstall classic properly. I do have a powerbook running 10.1.5, with installation discs for X and os 9. Is there any way of getting classic to work without having jaguar installation discs?
 
only if the os 9 drivers were enabled on the drive when it was formatted. if they were, you just need to install os 9. otherwise, you need the jag install disks to start all over.you might still run across troubles if your os 9 install disk is specific to your powerbook. attempting to install os 9 should answer these questions quickly. either you can do it or you can't.
 
Might be competely wrong, but is it possible to simply copy the os9 system folder from my powerbook to the G4 tower? Will this work or completly ruin the system? If this is feasible, where do I copy it to? I haven't tried to install from cd yet.
 
Normally, that will work to just copy a working OS 9 system folder, and should boot from that, but as edX states, unless the HD was formatted with OS 9 drivers enabled, you won't boot to OS 9 from that HD, regardless of what you install. BUT, try just copying your system Folder from your PB (copy the complete folder to probably the root (where the System and Library folders live), then see if you can change the startup disk to OS 9, all that can happen is it won't work at all (No OS 9 startup disk visible) or it will boot, either successfully to OS 9, or with a boot error or crash of some kind. Should not damage your OS X install, and if no OS 9 boot happens, then the drivers were not installed, and you'll have to format and reinstall to get OS 9 to work.
 
Do you have a bootable Mac OS 9.xx CD? If so here is what I did, dragged the system folder from my bootable 9 CD to my hard drive. Works fine for booting and running classic apps.
 
I have found some bootable CDs that will not work to copy System folder from that CD, because there is a CD-only Finder or other system file, which will not boot from a HD. That may work if you are only going to use Classic, and don't need to actually boot with OS 9
 
Cheers Deltamac, classic working! Tried all of the approaches but yours came closest, when I tried to copy the os9 system folder, it wouldn't let me at first. So I made a folder called System Folder and put it on my os x desktop. Then went into os 9 system folder on powerbook, selected and copied all then pasted to new System folder on os x. No problem moving this into root of HD, classic now working perfectly. Haven't tried to boot into 9 yet but I have no real need to anyway now that classic works!:D:D

Thanks for your help everyone!
 
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