run classic from a CD!!

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I decided that i wanted to be free of OS 9 on my iMac. I had planned on being that way when i upgraded to 10.2, Unfortuntly i had to reinstall it to put appleworks back on (amongst others) - so i could upgrade to the X version(s)

Any way, i made a disk image dragged my system folder and OS9 app folder into the disk image. I intended to just make a backup - just incase i need classic one day, i could just dray the folders back to the disk. Just for the sake of it I reblessed the system folder (look up the man pages in the terminal (%man bless)) and burnt the CD. I then trashed everything that was OS 9 from my iMac:
-System Folder
-Applications (Mac OS 9)
-Desktop
-Trash (hidden folder)

just out of curosity i tried starting up off the new CD - it didnt work

but...

you can select which folder classic starts from in system preferences. I set classic to start from the CD - and it worked like a charm!

I could run all of the old classic apps with the classic environment running off the CD

Wicked!!

Saved some space, got rid of classic, can still run classic if i have to!!

Just to reiterate:
I only have two folders on the disk, System Folder and Applications (Mac OS9).
 
Huh. Interesting. What happens when you try to change preferences in a Classic app, though? It's going to try writing to a read-only disc....
 
As I only need Classic for some crazy updaters that won't update Carbon apps unless there's a valid Classic environment, this is great news. Ah, no, isn't, because it wants a Classic environment in order to _install_ stuff there. :)

Ah, well, things will get better over time. For now, I've just installed a minimal OS 9.2.2 on my external HD for those times when an Installer wants Classic. I think they should add a 'Feed Your Classic Needs To Some Dog'-Button to those installers, though.
 
Originally posted by adambyte
Huh. Interesting. What happens when you try to change preferences in a Classic app, though? It's going to try writing to a read-only disc....
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This might not be a problem. The Classic Preference Pane lets you tell it to "Use preferences from home folder." If it works as advertised, then the read-only boot filesystem may not be an issue.
 
Originally posted by fryke
As I only need Classic for some crazy updaters that won't update Carbon apps unless there's a valid Classic environment, this is great news. Ah, no, isn't, because it wants a Classic environment in order to _install_ stuff there. :)

Ah, well, things will get better over time. For now, I've just installed a minimal OS 9.2.2 on my external HD for those times when an Installer wants Classic. I think they should add a 'Feed Your Classic Needs To Some Dog'-Button to those installers, though.
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I've seen this mentioned several times, but I couldn't find it in any of the threads. How do I install OS 9.2.2 on an external HD? I have nothing but Jag on my iMac and iBook, but there are a couple of Classic apps I'd like to continue to use.
 
Originally posted by davidbrit2
The Classic Preference Pane lets you tell it to "Use preferences from home folder." If it works as advertised, then the read-only boot filesystem may not be an issue.
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Holy crap, I never noticed that feature! Is that new with 10.2? That's genius! I might do this, too, now...
 
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