Installing OS 9 on Clamshell iBook

[hugtheslug]

I wonder if anyone can help me here - I have an Indigo Clamshell and it appears the firmware is not the latest so I'm trying to update it.

I have a 20gb hard drive with Tiger installed and a retail OS 9.2.1 disc.

Steps taken so far:-

1) Booted to iPartition disc and shrunk the Tiger partition to make free space

2) Booted to OS 9 disc; can't initialise drive

3) Booted back into iPartition, made free space into MacOS extended partition entitled OS_9

4) Booted into OS 9 disc again; still can't initialise without wiping the whole hard drive

At this point I am stumped - I don't want to lose my Tiger install if I can help after all the hard work setting it up - is there any non-destructive way of installing OS 9 to the partiton I have set up ready?
I have a complete backup of Tiger on a firewire drive (using Carbon Copy Cloner) so if there are no other options I could reformat the hard drive, install OS 9 to a small partition and restore Tiger to the larger one, but it's always one of those 'will it really work' things you need to take a deep breath before trying.

If that's the case, then how much space do I need for OS 9.2.1 + maybe a few apps, and I assume it needs to be the first partition; my Tiger restore on the second?

Thanks very much

Cheers

Hugh

 

[louishen]

You can install OS9 to the same partition as Tiger (it will just add another folder at the root level of the hard disk - called system folder) - it will not take up much room

 

[hugtheslug]

Unfortunately you have to actually boot to an OS 9 installation on an internal drive to upgrade the firmware; I already have Classic on my Tiger install but the firmware updater gave me an error and the above info.
I even tried selecting the Classic folder as startup disc, but it was a no go.

Cheers

Hugh

 

[louishen]

You should be able to boot directly into an installation of OS9 using the start-up disk preference pane or by pressing the alt key during start-up.

 

[hugtheslug]

Nope, sorry, won't do it. I just get a flashing icon, then I have to boot into the Tiger CD to reset the startup disc.

Looks like I'm going to have to allow OS 9 to wipe the hard drive, then restore my Tiger backup later.
I have more faith in Carbon Copy Cloner now as I had to do a complete restore to my MacBook recently.

Cheers

Hugh

 

[hugtheslug]

Thanks everyone for your help, I finally decided to allow the OS 9 disc to format the hard drive and installed it

Firmware now updated, and Tiger installation restored perfectly with Carbon Copy

Cheers

Hugh