Re: You can always go to 9.2 with 10.0
"I would appreciate a more detailed step-by-step on how to put 9.2 in from 10.0 I spent at least 1.5 days trying to achieve this. I have 9.21 & 9.2.2 on a non-bootable CD. I have 9.1 on a boot able CD, I have 9.1/10.0 restore disks. I even tried downloading 9.2.1/9.2.2 & applying them from 10.0. The bit here I am not fully clear on is what you mean by partition. I take that to mean splitting the disk in 2 which may be a problem allowing for iys size."
You don't need much size for the OS 9 partition - Mine is less than 1.5G. The only thing you are going to put on it is the OS 9 system. On my first WallStreet class laptop I only had a 6G partition - 2 went to OS 9, 4 to OS X - it was OK.
OK - here's my standard OS X install procedure.
1) Backup all personal data. Really do it - because you're going to wipe the disks. Partitioning requires that you wipe the disks. This sucks. But thats life. A borrowed firewire drive is a helpful thing here.
2) Insert latest 10.2 install CD and fire up Disk Utilities. Select the disk drive that is your internal disk - and somewhere or other there is a menu item "Customize" or something like that - I can't remember - but eventually you get this little graphical display that lets you drag lines in a big rectangle to set partition sizes. I make the first partition OSX and the second one OS 9. Be sure the drag the bottom of the lowest box down as far as you can or you'll end up with a chunk of unusable space on your disk. Why this is possible I have no idea. For both volumes, select HFS+ (maybe called MacOS Extended or something) as your format.
3) Click initialize and your disk will be destroyed and recreated like a Phoenix. Exit Disk Utilities.
4) On your rather lame OS 9 Boot Disk Finder desktop you should now see two hard disks with confusing names like Untitled1 and Untitled2. Immediately do a get info on them and rename the smaller something like OS 9 or Classic (what I use) and the other whatever you like (mine is the very imaginative OS X).
5) Install OS 9.2.mumble on the Classic disk. From now on, when upgrading this (9) OS - you should go to SystemDisk Control Panel and boot into this drive. Then upgrade/install/whatever.
6) Insert OS X disk and do a "Reformat and Install" on the OS X disk with OS X 10.2.
7) Optional - Install dev tools on OS X.
I've never tried having both OS's on one volume and I've not had any troubles. I have had many issues trying to keep multiple System Folders around under classic OS and I don't think making one of those systems OS X is likely to help matters any.
Disclaimer - this whole procedure takes about half a day.
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