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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 409574" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>You can reinstall the system without losing all the other files.</p><p></p><p>My OS 9 install disk has been missing for nearly five years (if anything catastrophic happens I kill the old one and copy a backup system folder over, but I can do this because I have two other bootable partitions: another OS 9, and one OS X).</p><p></p><p>You should be able to install another system folder without having to wipe the drive to do so. But there might be a problem in "blessing" the new folder so the machine will use the new one rather than the old. But the installer might do this automatically. I <em>think</em> it can.</p><p></p><p>You could also install a new system on the external drive. It's SCSI, so the computer should be able to boot from it. But blessing it might be a problem again, though in this case and the previous one, the machine might look automatically for a system it can boot.</p><p></p><p>There has to be a key (I hope) to press to force it to start from the external. I'll check lowendmac.com and whatever other OS 9 site I can find and get back to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 409574, member: 3889"] You can reinstall the system without losing all the other files. My OS 9 install disk has been missing for nearly five years (if anything catastrophic happens I kill the old one and copy a backup system folder over, but I can do this because I have two other bootable partitions: another OS 9, and one OS X). You should be able to install another system folder without having to wipe the drive to do so. But there might be a problem in "blessing" the new folder so the machine will use the new one rather than the old. But the installer might do this automatically. I [I]think[/I] it can. You could also install a new system on the external drive. It's SCSI, so the computer should be able to boot from it. But blessing it might be a problem again, though in this case and the previous one, the machine might look automatically for a system it can boot. There has to be a key (I hope) to press to force it to start from the external. I'll check lowendmac.com and whatever other OS 9 site I can find and get back to you. [/QUOTE]
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