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iBook question about hard-drive space

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newclearwinter

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Hey,

New to computers incase i'm about to ask a stupid question!

I have an iBook G3 and have been getting warning messages about freeing up some space if i want to add more music.

When i first got the computer and installed the operating system software, OS 9 was installed as well as OSX. Seens as how i only use OSX, would i be able to delete OS 9 to free up some space on the harddrive? Or would this affect the operation of my computer?

Any help for the 'newbie' would be appreciated...!
 
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anyone can correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe you can delete it to free up hard drive space. But someone might say otherwise so wait a bit
 
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You can remove it but some programs might want to run in os9.... As long as you don't use those programs it will be fine to delete os9.
 
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while were on the topic, doesn't his computer have classic to run those apps anyway?
 
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If you remove the OS 9 system folder, you lose the ability to run the classic environment.
 

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