What Do I Do?

[TheDreamer22]

Well, im in a bit of a situation. My friend has a Mac with OS 9.1. Her comp is running like crap, so I wanted to install it to new, or recover the system.....so what is the problem you ask...hehe....she lost all her original disks when she moved. Now, she bought OS X Jaguar thinking she could reinstall that way.....not knowing that it can't re-install 9.1.....ugh. So my question is....does she have to buy the 9.1 software again for like 100 bucks, or is there a way to just get the system rocovery disk.....Please help, she just started Univ. and is freaking out because her comp isn't running very well.....

Thank you

The Dreamer

 

[maxformed]

I'm a little unclear - did you overwrite the system? The 9.1 updater is available on the apple site - but you have to have 9.0 - 9.04 to use it. If not you need the disks. There's a bit of info here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75103

And within that is information on older systems.

From what I can remember, you can go ahead with the OS X, and still use Classic like 9.2 (I'm not sure of 9.1) -

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120030

for more info.

Hope this helps.
Max

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[jimoblak]

The OS9 install CD is the system recovery disk. Go to ebay.com and buy an OS9 system CD.

While 'maxformed' is correct that you may be able to update the existing buggy system with the 9.1 or 9.2 update, your friend should still invest in a used (cheap) system CD so that this does not happen again.

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Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?