Recently I got an iMac, a 2001 Indigo Model. (Dark Blue, 400mhz, CD-Rom Drive.)
For some reason, the past owners thought it was a stellar idea to put OS X 10.3 on it with it's crap for RAM and it's insanely slow.
It has OS 9.2 on it, and can boot from it via picking it from the Startup Disk Control Panel/System Control and vice versa.
Is there some way I can get rid of OS X and just keep the 9.2 on it? Is it as simple as booting into OS 9.2 and just Deleting the OS X system folder, etc?
Thanks!
Should not be a problem. I guess it would be more straight forward if the two OS's are on their own partitions (but not impossible, if not).
In a "normal" (Classic Mac OS only) install in its own partition, the Mac OS System Folder is at the root level (inside main startup drive icon on desktop).
Personally, I would do a fresh "clean install" of OS 9.x, 1st re-formatting the drive, then re-installing a fresh OS 9.2. - Mainly to get rid of all of the hidden Mac OS X files that will be cluttering up every folder on the drive, such as ".DS_Store" files, etc, etc.
Well, unless you need the disk space, or you wish to clean install OS9, leave it as is. Sitting in OS9 all the time is not going to be any faster if you remove OS X. And OSX could get you out of OS9 boot issues some time. It's your choice, but I've been there, done that on many Macs, and I've always been glad I left OSX on.
I agree with BertyBoy completely - OS X is useful (frequently a lifesaver) to have on a partition - had my Titanium with OS 9 exclusively - now it has a 320 gb drive partioned (Panther & OS 9) - life is good (... and even tho Tiger is superior, Panther is fun in it's own quirky way ...)
If you are planning on going crazy on the apps & games here at the Garden you may want to spring for a bigger hard drive now ....
If I had an emergency boot CD for possible problems that could occur on an old G3 iMac and I only wanted OS 9 on it. I'd clean install OS 9 and forget about having OS X on it.
Its unlikely this will be your only computer or running crucial systems.
