Originally posted by reasonableman
I have a 6GB hard drive in my Rev D iMac.
Currently, I have Mac OS 8.5 installed.
If I install Mac OS X will I need to partition my drive (and therefore erase it) to be able to run Classic?
-R.
you'll have to install os 9.1 over 8.5 whatever you do...
whether you partition or not depends on whether you're particularly worried about your data... there's quite a few people that have done it without partioning, but, quite honestly, i feel partitioning is better as you then always have a separate 9.1 apart from your classic and your os x to fall back on in case anything goes wrong. also, quite a few apps (games like deus ex, for instance) are extremely snaillike under classic, so if you're a gamer, or if you use apps that are quite close hardware like recording programs, for instance, you'll want to run those under normal 9.1 instead of classic...
all in all, i think it's worth the bother. i'm certainly glad i partioned...
have fun with os x ... it's great!
oh, and check out my thread on virtually the same question in this forum ... i got some really sound advice from other guys on the forum ...
; )