[Koralatov]

I'm very confused. I installed OS 9.1 on my iBook (specs in sig), and it runs like an absolute dog. Granted, I'm not intending doing anything much with it, just playing a few games I found, but I'm still totally horrified by its perfomance: it takes longer than Tiger to start-up, and once it does it's hardly what I'd call "nippy". It randomly freezes whilst doing things, then eventually reawakens with no explanation of what it was doing (and no apparent task achieved).

Now, the last Classic Mac OS I used was one of the 7s on a Performa, back in my school days, and I don't remember it being this bad. Am I suffering from a borked install (very likely--I had to hatchet it using an iMac G3 restore CD), or is it just that OS 9.1 is a genuinely poor operating system? Because from what I've seen, I really cannot fathom the fanatical support it receives from some; OSX is not perfect by any means, but it's light-years ahead of OS 9...

[Cold Warrior]

It worked ok for me on my old PowerBook G3. It shipped with 8.x, but then I upgraded to OS 9 when I could. Random freezes from time to time, which back then would lock up the whole system.

[hookem2oo7]

maybe if you updated to 9.2.2 it would help solve some of the problems. I'd tend to agree that using the iMac G3 disc could be causing problems depending on which model iMac it was from. If it's from a model older than the 466 clamshell you could be missing some extensions or something...

[Koralatov]

Originally Posted by Cold Warrior 

It worked ok for me on my old PowerBook G3. It shipped with 8.x, but then I upgraded to OS 9 when I could. Random freezes from time to time, which back then would lock up the whole system.

Yeah... The (very brief) use I got out of OS 9 that came on the Clamshell prior to reformatting to OSX was plagued by the same problems. The more reading I do, the more I begin to realise that OS 9 was a dead-end technologically--it was encumbered by way too much baggage and obsolete technology, and it really wasn't cut out to be a modern OS.

Originally Posted by hookem2oo7 

maybe if you updated to 9.2.2 it would help solve some of the problems. I'd tend to agree that using the iMac G3 disc could be causing problems depending on which model iMac it was from. If it's from a model older than the 466 clamshell you could be missing some extensions or something...

It was the restore disk from the iMac in my sig, which is roughly contemporaneous to the iBook. But I suspect that it's definitely a part of it. I'll get round to doing it sometime, but I don't plan on using it very much, to be honest...

[CharlesS]

The installers for the classic Mac OS were very machine-specific. I remember trying to do something like that once many years ago and having all kinds of weird problems until I clean-installed a retail copy of the OS over it. You're probably missing some System Enabler or something that you need for the OS to run properly on your machine.

I'd just go look for a retail OS 9 disc on eBay or something. I can't imagine they'd cost too much.