Removing OS 9.2 and Office 98
- Thread starter gerrygoss
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nixgeek
Mac of the SubGenius! :-)
I believe to remove OS 9 all you have to do is trash the "System Folder" for OS 9 (not to be confused with the folder called "System" which is used by OS X). Of course, if you have any older apps you might want to use, I recommend keeping it for Classic mode. As for Office 98, I believe you might have to run the installer to remove it since it throws files into the System Folder (OS 9). Do this before trashing OS 9 just in case.
Also, make sure that you don't need any extra firmware updates. See the chart in the link below to see if you need one.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117
Also, make sure that you don't need any extra firmware updates. See the chart in the link below to see if you need one.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117
bobw
The Late: SuperMacMod
Reboot in single user mode (hold Command-S at startup), mounted the drive writable and removed it that way. Once at the singleuser prompt, do
$ mount -uw /
$ cd /
$ rm -rf 'System Folder'
Be very careful with your spaces and escapes, or it's bye-bye to the /System folder (the actual OS X folder!), which would be very bad.
That's the system taken care of.
Now you can reboot and remove /Applications (Mac OS 9) from your disk -- the Finder lets you do this just fine. Now to fix things up so that the Preferences pane doesn't appear, and the system doesn't think there's an OS 9 bootable part of the disk. In the Terminal, do:
$ sudo bless -folder /System/Library/CoreServices
Thiss will re-bless the OS X folder, and remove any blessing from the now-removed OS 9 folder. You will also need to find the com.apple.Classic.some_number.plist file in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/, and remove it:
$ rm ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.Classic.some_number.plist
If there is a file at ~/Library/Preferences/ called com.apple.Classic.plist, remove that, too. Additionally, there may be a folder at ~/Library/Classic containing a file called .LoadClassicPref. That should be deleted, too, after checking that there's nothing in the folder you want to keep:
$ rm -rf ~/Library/Classic
You may wish to repeat the above preference removals for all users.
$ mount -uw /
$ cd /
$ rm -rf 'System Folder'
Be very careful with your spaces and escapes, or it's bye-bye to the /System folder (the actual OS X folder!), which would be very bad.
That's the system taken care of.
Now you can reboot and remove /Applications (Mac OS 9) from your disk -- the Finder lets you do this just fine. Now to fix things up so that the Preferences pane doesn't appear, and the system doesn't think there's an OS 9 bootable part of the disk. In the Terminal, do:
$ sudo bless -folder /System/Library/CoreServices
Thiss will re-bless the OS X folder, and remove any blessing from the now-removed OS 9 folder. You will also need to find the com.apple.Classic.some_number.plist file in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/, and remove it:
$ rm ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.Classic.some_number.plist
If there is a file at ~/Library/Preferences/ called com.apple.Classic.plist, remove that, too. Additionally, there may be a folder at ~/Library/Classic containing a file called .LoadClassicPref. That should be deleted, too, after checking that there's nothing in the folder you want to keep:
$ rm -rf ~/Library/Classic
You may wish to repeat the above preference removals for all users.
I think it's much easier to simply be booted into OS X (so that system folder's already blessed) and simply put the "System Folder" as well as "Applications (OS 9)" to the Trash. There's not really any funky Terminal stuff needed, unless permissions don't allow you to erase the Trash (but that _shouldn't_ be the case!). Then, you could still use the Terminal to do just that. Much safer, since you won't ever go near erasing the OS X System.