Problem with Classic

Question

I'm running OS 10.4.11 on a G4 iBook.
Have also loaded OS 9.2 and the two updaters 9.2.1 and 9.2.2. I see each of these on my desktop. The
OS 9.2 folder appears complete.
PROBLEMS INCLUDE:
When I go to an app that requires Classic, Classic begins to load, the progress bar shows just a bit of blue, and then it appears to hang. In this case I'm using OS 9.2.
When I try to upgrade to OS 9.2.1 Classic always starts, despite how I set the Classic preferences, and the updater app does not function.
Ditto behavior for updated 9.2.2, but I know I must first successfully update to 9.2.1.
The big problem is getting Classic to work correctly. What am I missing?
Thanks
Robert

Answer 1

So, that is the OS 9 System folder on the desktop?
If so, it should be in the hard disk drive; and the
companion Applications 9 folder, there also.
Does the computer you have support Dual Booting?
If the computer is an older iBook, some of them did.
OS 9 Drivers... need to be installed prior to any OS.
The iBooks which shipped with an OS9.2.2 system
may be unable to use the OS9.2.1 or older software
in an install or update mode in the computer. They
shipped with a newer OS 9.2.2 that was not retail.
Unless yours is a second version first model White G3
and then, it may have shipped with an OS 9.1 restore
disc on CD, along with an older OS X 10.0. These
would be upgraded while running from OS 9.1. If you
only have an OS 9.1 version, the upgrade downloads
may not work. (Somewhere, on disc, I have a tech disc
that will upgrade OS8.6 to 9.2.2; a rarity.)
The RAM amount you say yours has, indicates to me
and the data I've read about iBooks, that it is a G3
model, and there were several in a row using 640MB
RAM as a max, and they could dual-boot with their
original OS9.1 system and the supplied OS X. From
the booted 9.1, you can upgrade to 9.2.1 & 9.2.2.
This may involve a retail OS 9.2.1 install disc; if the
updaters don't work, or if you need a boot CD 9.2.
Did you get your OS 9.2.1 update from a reputable site
such as Apple support, or another OK one, such as:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6214 ?
You will have to use an 'Identify by serial number' site
(such as I have posted) to tell more about the computer
so other databases can be used to know more about it.
And more about the software set included with it. The
OS9 version, if it can be used to boot the computer,
would require the hard disk drive to have OS9 Drivers.
Those would be installed on a bare, reformatted drive
before OS 9 or OS X were installed. With OS9 boot
restored (if that model supports it) then the OS9 can
be used to upgrade itself.
An external drive, set up as a boot volume, could be
used to update an OS 9 system. However, if the iBook
is a dual-boot computer, without OS9 Drives in it, the
computer won't boot OS9, & can only see it as classic.
That may slow your update to 9.2.2 if not prevent it.
(There is a way to update Classic, but not sure how.
My dual-boot and classic-only Macs have used just
OS 9.2.2.)
See Mactracker's iBook information, from their download
database, read it in another computer: http://mactracker.ca
Apple iBook Specs (all iBook tech specs)
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ibook/index-ibook.html
Good luck & happy computing!
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