[docrmarten]

Is there an easy way to remove Classic 9 from OSX? My ibook was my first mac and I never use it.

[billybob128]

i was also wondering about this fact but i hav heard not i wanted to get rid of it cause of the disc space i have

[alien]

Drag the "System Folder" (with a 9 logo) and the "Applications (Mac OS 9)" folders to the thrash.

There might be a folder called "Documents" at the top level of the disk, containing OS 9 documents. You can thrash that one too.

That's about it.

[SupahCoolX]

Be careful before you just trash the OS9 applications and documents folders. There may be important stuff you'd want to keep in there!

[arnette]

I thought about doing this too, but in the end I decided to keep OS 9 on my computer. My 40GB hard drive will only fill up with music and photos as the most spacing-hogging items which should probably be backed up anyway. So it's ok if not ALL my vacation photos are crammed in my iBook.

And the one freakish time I'll need OS 9, it's there.

[ccsccs7]

I've actually had an odd experience where OS 9 came in handy, although I didn't expect it to.

I usually use OS 9 for many apps, but a friend of mine wanted to print something off of a CD ROM. Naturally, I assumed it was Windows based. So I popped it into the PC, but it didn't mount. I thought perhaps that it was the media (CDR or something), but the back was silver.

I decided to try it in my newer iBook (and since I did have Virtual PC installed, I figured I could at least try that).

Well, I put it in, and I opened the disc in the Finder. It had a program with an icon on it. I didn't realize right away that that icon meant something. I figured a generic document might have an icon, but then it opened, and I knew it was opening in the Classic environment.

That was odd though. I assume the disc was HFS(+) formatted, which would explain why it wouldn't mount in the PC.