Dual booting for Macs

[yasunobu13]

Anyone know how to dual boot OS 9.2 and OS X (10.3)? I searched around for a while and couldn't find any instructions.

[admedia]

you want to run os 9 from osX?
(assuming you have both OS intalled)

go to System Prefs... then startup disk.. select the OS9 and restart

from OS9 i think it's apple menu > control panel > startup disc

what a pain in the ass...

or throw your mac into the nearest lake, river or canal and get windows XP.

[gerbick]

Some hardware won't boot into MacOS 9.x at all.

But from within the MacOS X environment, you can go into System Preferences > Startup Disk and pick which you want to boot into.

[asheep_uk]

Originally posted by yasunobu13
Anyone know how to dual boot OS 9.2 and OS X (10.3)? I searched around for a while and couldn't find any instructions.

Just out of interest, what does that do that the classic environment can't? I've had classic installed all this time and only actually used it for one application (which, incidentally, was rubbish).

[yasunobu13]

Thanks for the replies

admedia and Gerbick: I do know how to switch the startup disc, I am somewhat experienced Macs, but only OS 9 and a little OS X

asheep_uk: I'm doing this on my work computer and currently the rest of my office uses OS 9, I want OS X to test web sites on the newer browsers and I still need OS 9 to work with the rest of the office. OS X doesn't want to print to some of our printers. Plus, my machine is the one people go to to burn discs when I'm not here and maybe 3 other people have used OS X in the office, so I want to have OS 9 bootable for the coworkers that don't want to mess with OS X.

Now, the question is, how do I get the startup for OS 9 on the machine. I wiped the drive and installed OS X, now, do I just grab an OS 9 disc and go through the install and I'm good to go? That is, do I just install OS 9 without "initializing" the disc?

Or does OS 9 need to be on the drive first?

[yasunobu13]

Originally posted by admedia
or throw your mac into the nearest lake, river or canal and get windows XP.

I missed that comment on the first read. I've got XP on my laptop and home computer (dual booted with Red Hat 9). I've got My OSes covered

[gerbick]

glad to know you have some experience with macs. those kind of things when implied are always overlooked.

read: you didn't say so in the first post.

hold the option key on the next boot. you can then pick which OS you want to boot into that time.

[yasunobu13]

Originally posted by gerbick
read: you didn't say so in the first post.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What, you can't read minds?

I ended up installing 9.2 and OSX on a seperate partitions. But installing 9.2 before X was what I needed.


Thanks for the help everyone

[gerbick]

*smacks forehead*

you didn't even have it installed!?

I used to read minds, but they kept coming back empty. so I stopped.