upgrading to Tiger

baggss said:

Yes, you can dump it. Unless you reformat the disc, OSX will ALWAYS save the old system and leave it for you delete manually.

OS9 works great for running classic under OSX, I just reinstalled it and it works fine with 10.4.10...

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Well, I guess I won't worry about it then. What do you use classic for? Weird thing I just noticed, alot of stuff got transferred onto my ibook as well off that OSX 10.4
and my ibook is running on OSX 10.4.10
I just dumped classic off the ibook. but if I have a reason to keep it on the emac, I'll just leave it alone.
And where are all the languages now? Can't find them anywere.

Get rid of Classic. It's a kludge and it's also a security/stability risk.

OS 9 in system pref.

How do I get OS 9 icon out of system preferences?? I got it off the ibook but can't figure out how to get it off the emac.

Anyone??

What version of OS X do you have?

I believe older versions have it built in so you can't remove it from system prefs.

I'm not quite sure why you're so eager to remove it though - it's not doing any harm sitting there!

/System/Library/PrefercePanes/Classic.prefPane

I have an emac - so yes... it came with it back in the olden days. I upgraded the emac to OSX 10.4.8 and I didn't do a clean install so it kept all my old files which was good in some ways but I don't want OS 9 anymore. Just to have more room - that's all.
Somehow OS 9 got onto the ibook because in order to get the new operating system on the emac, I had to use the ibook as the host computer via firewire. Emac doesn't have a DVD drive.
But I got OS 9 off ibook but couldn't on emac. But that might be why.... maybe it can't be since it's part of the system. Unless I re-do the install and do a clean sweep. Ah.... no big deal. I can live there if it wants. I was just curious if I could get it off. If it's taking up space, it would be nice to not have it there.
Thanks.... baggss - I'll check that one out.

Good question I have discovered the same. Cross a liteon one off your list I got one and will read but not write (whenever I write it goes direct to writing lead out)

Remember to look for an external FireWire DVD optical drive otherwise you won't be able to install your OS.

Will USB ones really not work?

I exchanged the liteon one for an LG one that I had seen mentioned on another forum and had the same problem (going straight to lead out) yet both drives read the disk just fine.

I am thinking I will just have to power-buy the lacie from the apple store.

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I bought two...

A USB peripheral can allow an Intel-based Mac to boot from it, I've heard. But in the OP's case (and yours too if you have a PowerPC-based Mac) you will need a FireWire DVD. I would guess holding down the Option key while booting will allow the user to pick the external DVD as the main OS and this will allow the install on the internal disk.

10.4.10

Right now on my emac is running on 10.4.6 and I was sent an upgrade notice. So, fine... I try to upgrade but since i have dialup at home, it was going to take over 22 hours!! Is there another way I could do this? Is there maybe a CD somewhere out there in cyber land that I could get?
Or just leave it alone? My emac doesn't have a DVD player - just a CD. In order for me to upgrade it to Tiger, I used the target disk mode, using my ibook as the host computer.

You need to find a computer at work, school, or a friend's or relatives computer--any computer, Mac or PC--with a fast connection, and download the following
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10410comboupdateppc.html
and burn it to CD. Then take it home, copy it over to your Mac, and run it.

Ah great idea! I can do that with my ibook laptop then at work. Thanks