hi everybody
this is my first post, so i'll try my best. my boss uses a treo and has a tibook 800 with jaguar installed. but he wasn't able to sync his treo with it.
this is some kind of workaround for synching treo with os x. although you still need a classic, the way classic is installed is different. classic boots from a mounted .dmg file.
i took this text from a
macosxhints.com hint
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Here are some quick instructions for installing/copying Mac OS 9 onto a Classic disk image:
1. Launch Disk Copy (in the Utilities folder).
2. Select "New Image" from the File or Dock menu.
3. In the new dialogue that pops up, select a suitable location for the new disk image (I put it on a separate partition together with the VPC disk images, for coherence), give it a suitable name (I chose "Classic" - without quotes! - in both fields); then select a suitable size (also depending on if you already have an existing installation to copy over to the image; I selected the 500 MB option), choose the "Mac OS Extended" format (default), and the "No Encryption" (default) option. Once the image is created (it should, as far as I can tell, be uncompressed - and *writable*, of course), it will mount on the desktop.
4. Install Mac OS 9 (and update it, if you have an older version than 9.2.2) onto the mounted disk image or drag your existing Mac OS 9 System Folder, etc. onto the image.
5. Open Terminal (in Utilities) and type:sudo bless -folder "path to the system folder on the disk image" -folder9 "path to the system folder on the disk image" -bootBlocks. In practice, just type sudo bless -folder, add a space, double-click your new Classic disk image, and drag the System Folder onto the Terminal window: this will automatically create the "path to the system folder on the disk image" entry; of course, repeat the same after the -folder9 entry.
When the command has been typed OK, hit the return key and give your administrator password; the System Folder on the disk image will be blessed and ready for use with Classic.
6. Open System Preferences. Here, it is best to first launch the Startup Disk pane and select the disk image as a startup disk the first time (choose to modify the startup disk when prompted to); then, re-select the previous (10.2) startup disk and save the change to return to the previous state.
7. Finally, open the Classic preference pane and wait for the scanning of the volumes to complete; then select the mounted disk image (with its blessed System Folder) as the Classic startup volume, and start Classic: you will probably be prompted to update some components in the System Folder (choose to update them, of course) - and, voila, Mac OS 9 loads from the mounted disk image (with optional happy Mac)!
8. Shut down Classic, optionally rebuild the Desktop file (second tab in the Classic pane), and unmount (eject) the disk image from the OS X desktop. Then, start Classic again: surprise (an *excellent* surprise!) - Classic *automatically* mounts the disk image and launches the environment.
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blessing the systemfolder for me only worked in 10.2.
after that install your handspring software and start using it :-)
i know it's not really a solution, but it worked well for my boss. and you don't have to create an extra partition and mess up your system :-))
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