Hi,

I have a G4500 that I currently have OS 9 installed on, and I have purchased
OS 10.3.

Currently the HD is partitioned into two volumes, volume number 2 is only
about 2 GB. and has OS 9 installed on it, for emergency boot purposes in
case volume 1 has problems.

Question is, should I remove the OS 9 off of volume 2 (2 GB) before I
install OS X onto volume 1, or will this affect the computer at all. Can I
just leave it as is? If I want to boot into OS 9 only, can I still boot
from Volume 2 without causing problems with Volume 1? Or is it just bad
news to try to do this?

Thanks.
Dave

In article <qovMd.99265$Ob.94009@edtnps84>, "Dave" <user@host.dom>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a G4500 that I currently have OS 9 installed on, and I have purchased
> OS 10.3.
>
> Currently the HD is partitioned into two volumes, volume number 2 is only
> about 2 GB. and has OS 9 installed on it, for emergency boot purposes in
> case volume 1 has problems.
>
> Question is, should I remove the OS 9 off of volume 2 (2 GB) before I
> install OS X onto volume 1, or will this affect the computer at all. Can I
> just leave it as is? If I want to boot into OS 9 only, can I still boot
> from Volume 2 without causing problems with Volume 1? Or is it just bad
> news to try to do this?
>
> Thanks.
> Dave

No problem as long as volume 1 is HFS+, then Mac OS X can be installed
on volume 1 and volume 2 can be your Mac OS 9 system.

Bob Harris

In article <nospam.News.Bob-70CE1E.21020303022005@news.verizon.net>,
Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> wrote:

>In article <qovMd.99265$Ob.94009@edtnps84>, "Dave" <user@host.dom>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a G4500 that I currently have OS 9 installed on, and I have purchased
>> OS 10.3.
>>
>> Currently the HD is partitioned into two volumes, volume number 2 is only
>> about 2 GB. and has OS 9 installed on it, for emergency boot purposes in
>> case volume 1 has problems.
>>
>> Question is, should I remove the OS 9 off of volume 2 (2 GB) before I
>> install OS X onto volume 1, or will this affect the computer at all. Can I
>> just leave it as is? If I want to boot into OS 9 only, can I still boot
>> from Volume 2 without causing problems with Volume 1? Or is it just bad
>> news to try to do this?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Dave
>
>No problem as long as volume 1 is HFS+, then Mac OS X can be installed
>on volume 1 and volume 2 can be your Mac OS 9 system.

After you are done and are running in 10.3 you can open Font Book and
make sure that all your old OS 9 fonts are available in 10.3 as well.