removing OSX?

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antonioconte

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I use OS9 mostly on my G4 for Quark At the moment and to be honest I am running out of memory and so was thinking how to remove OSX completely cause I'm not really using this machine for this. IS there a safe way and clean way of doing this?

Thank You

Tony.
 
Yeah, it is easy. Just delete the thing.

First, move all personal documents from the home's of your users into OS9's Documents folder (on the root of your hard-disk). Or to be safe, just move the home's themselves.

Open the terminal and enter the following command

ls -la /

This will give you a complete listing of every file and folder on the root of your hard drive. Copy and paste the listing to a text app and print.

Boot into OS9. Delete all file/folders not relevant to OS9. Some may be locked so option-empty trash. You may need a program like resedit to make some visible.

Keep for certain:
Applications (Mac OS 9)
Desktop DB
Desktop DF
Desktop Folder
Documents
System Folder
Temporary Items
TheFindByContentFolder
TheVolumeSettingsFolder
Trash

I have to declare myself not responsible if your machine or data gets messed up due to my advice.

If anybody else has anyhting to add...
 
You're probably running OS9 in classic mode. That is, OSX is running as the main operating system, and OS 9 is running on top of it. If so, try running OS9 by itself -- natively. Go to System Preferences. Click on Startup Disk. Click on Mac OS 9.x.x. Click restart.

If you do that, your computer will restart running OS9. At that point, OSX will only be occupying HARD DISK space, not using-up RAM. I'm sure you can live with that. :) Leave OSX installed, just run it when you please.
 
I think he actually meant hard disk space, not RAM. I have had several non-computer-literate people make this same mistake, not uncommon.
 
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