I had to wrestle with installing OS 9/Classic on a Tiger system last night, and while I’m not sure this would have been easier, it’s miles cooler.
minivmac [nothickmanuals.info]:
Running Linux, Windows or applications like Firefox, Thunderbird and AbiWord from a USB flash memory device is old hat. How about a Mac 128K or Plus on a USB key? Using a ‘portable’ Mac system you can:
- play with old system software and applications without dusting off your old Mac,
- impress your friends, or show others what the older Mac system looked like,
- use Mac on Windows and Linux.
What I ended up doing was opening up my iBook’s system restore disks and looking through the .images directories on each one til I found the OS9General disk image. NB: you need to look through the disks in the Terminal or in some other way that shows you files/folders that start with “.” ie, are invisible.
Mounted and copied it to my system, then ran the 9.2.1 updater. My OS 9 installer wouldn’t work and I know I can’t boot into OS 9 on anything I use anymore.
Then I could run my ancient copy of InDesign.
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