Subject: Re: slightly Off-Topic: MacOS upgrade 8.5 to ???
From: Chris Ruprecht (chrup@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Dec 26 2001 - 09:41:45 MST
Bob,
The upgrade to 8.6 should be ok and you don't have to spend any extra
money on it. If you want to upgrade to 9.1, you have to buy the MacOS
9 CD and it's not worth it, if you want it just for a game. If you
have a new world machine, the upgrade on the MacOS side might
eliminate the dual boot setup, but you can re-establish that using
the OF setup as described in the YDL Install Guide.
As to Memory on your machine: The memory is ok to run MacOS X, so is
the drive and the speed. But OS X is not upwards compatible with OS 9
and the games your kids want to play are likely not to work under OS
X anyway. You would have to run 'Classic', which would be at least
9.1 under OS X, and that's kind of defeating the object. My opinion
is: If you don't have a reason to run OS X - or applications for it,
then, run OS 9 and/or Linux instead.
Best regards,
Chris
At 07:09 -0800 12/26/2001, Bob Patton wrote:
>I currently have YDL 2.0 and Mac OS 8.5 on a beige G3
>with 352 MB but only a 6GB hard drive. One of my kids
>new games needs at least Mac OS 8.6. I would like to
>get this game working with the least effort possible -
>I really don't want to have to do a clean install with
>all the backups and restores and I especially do not
>want to mess up the YDL side.
>
>Should I just upgrade to 8.6 or should I go for
>9.something?
>
>Is the best way to do such an upgrade to get CDs from
>Apple or can I download the 34MB file which I found
>for the 8.6 upgrade and do it locally?
>
>Given my smallish hard drive and slowish processor
>(266MHz I believe) I am under the impression that
>upgrading to Mac OS X would not be advisable. Is this
>correct? Would it mess up the Linux install if I did?
>Would any of my Mac software stop working on OS X?
>
>Any assistance/opinions are much appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bob Patton
>
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