On Sunday 29 October 2006 19:08, Bill Perrotta wrote:
> Thanks for the advice. I ordered mac os 9.2 from an
ebay seller and can't
> wait to get my hands on it. Question though do you know
if the jaguar
> 10.2.8 update will update os 9.2 to osx or do i need a
full install of os
> 10.2.8 reason i'm asking is cause I have a source for
os x msoffice that i
> could run. This would be for my friends mac. I will
probably just use os
> 9.2 and yellow dog on mine possibly ydl4 if i can
figure out how to get it
> installed if not at least ydl 3.1.with a dual boot of
os 9 and yellowdog i
> can run os9 when i want to go on the internet and ydl
for everything else.
> No support for shockwave on ydl ppc is just plain
stupidity.
As for 9.2, that is a very different thing than OS X,
however I think many of
the versions of OS X came with a 9.2 CD in the package (mine
did, anyway).
You need to install OS 9.2 as part of an OS X install if you
want "Classic"
support. ("Classic" is Apple's term for the OS 9
compatibility layer, which
isn't exactly OS 9--a long story). Anyway, you can't update
9.2 to X because
they're completely different operating systems.
It's confusing because in OS X, you have a (sorta) version
of OS 9.2 running
concurrently with X, not unlike running VirtualPC. So to
recap, if you want
OS X with "Classic" (OS 9) compatibility, you will
need a full install
version of OS X as well as an OS 9.2 CD. The 10.2.8 updater
you probably
found at the Apple site *will not* work unless you already
have an earlier
version of 10.2.
To make things even a little more confusing, it is *also*
possible to
partition your drive so that you can boot into a *real*
version of OS 9 (as
opposed to OS X running the "Classic" emulator).
You do this simply by doing
an OS 9 install on one partition and an OS X install on
another (and most
likely, a YDL install on a third partition). See the YDL
install manual for
more info. I think every version of YDL since 2.2 has
instructions for dual
and triple booting.
Still, if I were installing YDL on an OldWorld machine, I'd
probably do a
minimal OS 9 install, and then install the BootX bootloader
and YDL. Like I
said before, OS X is just incredibly bloated. I can't
believe how much my
dual G5 chokes on just simple stuff (e.g. scrubbing from one
location to
another in movies is very jerky and often plagued with long
delays--it sucks,
frankly). Maybe 10.4 is a little better, but 10.3.9 is just
terrible. I
can't imagine it wouldn't be a lot worse on a slower
machine.
As for Shockwave/Flash, see my earlier post about how I got
Flash banners and
animations working in Firefox. I'm not sure if this will
give you fully
functional Flash capabilities (I haven't been on enough
Flash sites to know
for sure), but it definitely gives you working banners and
animations.
-PRH
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