Uninstall os 9 classic

So not very useful. I copied the System Folder from the CD onto the hard disk, and told the classic applette to boot it, and it updated some system files, and then gave me this fine message:. After mounting the read only image, it booted! After the install you can eject the CD, unmount the read-only copy and tell the classic to stop and then boot from the new installed copy of OS 9 on the OS X disk.

So to recap, copy the system folder from the CD onto read-write media, and let classic update it. Move it to a read-only disk image and have classic boot from that, and then run the OS 9 installer to install itself to whatever target disk you need or want. Thanks for freeing up some space! I have not played with classic at ALL in well over a year. I bought my Powerbook in January I finally have been able to dump the monkey of Classic!

Well, I went for it, with no ill effects so far. I tried the instructions from the original hint, but I was still getting the Preference Pane showing up.

No problems yet. Be careful! Unfortunately, having Classic. That is unless I am missing something. I still have the "9" in the Finder menu bar at the top of the screen near the clock, volume, screen res. Everything else has been removed. Any ideas on how to remove that "9" in the menu bar? But if that's gone now, just hold down the Command key, and drag the OS 9 item down and out of the menu bar.

Funny that this hints got posted today, because just yesterday I was trying to do this and I missed a character and ended up deleting my system.

Right before print out a paper due in an hour. I had a blast reinstalling I don't know about removing Classic from Tiger since I removed it way back when I installed Panther, but my trick for getting around the 'in use' issue was to add a new folder "untitled folder" to the root level - threw the "System Folder" inside and then deleted the "untitled folder".

Worked fine for me and no terminal. You are a genius!! I was wordering how to remove the classic system. I did what you said and it worked easily. Thank you very much!! One more question though. How do i get rid of this?

Hi - I am running Panther However I think I must have deleted too many folders, or something that I shouldn't have. I recently wanted to run an installer that required Classic and so because I didn't have Classic anymore, I re-installed it from my disc, but it didn't work.

When I run the Classic based installer it comes up that there was an Unexpected error error code Can anybody help me? I don't want to have to re-install my system :. Rebuilding my destop database is the only thing I use Classic for now. How would I do that if the Classic prefpane was no longer there? No need to rebuild it if you're not actually using OS 9 for anything. I have the same problem as the previous two posters. I have managed to remove OS 9 as describes here.

When tried to open an OS 9 App. Apr 28, PM in response to corpsedrill In response to corpsedrill. What you actually need is a way to get a Mac OS 9. Since you cannot obtain the disc for installing that System Folder, here's one way you can get it through a download from Apple. I assume it still works as described, since the old download link is still active. The downloaded file is called NetBoot9. Mount the NetBoot9.

The disk image has four language folders inside. Inside the English folder, there is a file called NetBoot. Right or Control click on NetBoot. A Finder window opens. Go into the folder called Contents , and then into Resources. Find the file called NetBoot. This is an archive file. Double-click NetBoot. When double-clicking the NetBootInstallation folder, you may get an error message about "access privileges. Now, open the NetBootInstallation folder.

Find the file called NetBoot HD. This System Folder is 9. Drag this System Folder to the Mac's hard drive. The standard location is at the top root level, but you can place it anywhere. Click the Start button to run the Classic environment.