Hello,
I have a MacBook Pro and here are the specs:
Born Feb 25th 2011
USED UNIBODY MACBOOK PRO I7/2.7 GHZ
4 GB of RAM
500 GB internal drive
Internal SuperDrive
Airport Extreme and Bluetooth installed
Intel HD Graphics 3000
13in. Glossy Display
OS 10.8.2 installed
My question is,
Can I partition my hard drive and install os 9.22 ?
I have a few old programs that I want to run.
Any info would be helpful,
Thank you in advance :-)
You can't. It is not doable at all.
Allan
d rock wrote:
Can I partition my hard drive and install os 9.22 ?
Well you have a problem, the processors that ran OS 9 were PowerPC and now all Mac's run Intel processors.
Even virtual machine software won't work.
Find a old PPC based Mac that's still running and has OS X 10.4 or earlier and use Classic Enviroment to run the OS 9 programs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Environment
Another method seems to be with SheepShaver
http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/#support
My next question is,
Could I purchase an external hard drive and put os 9 on the external and then connect it to my MacBook Pro
And use it ?
d rock wrote:
My next question is,
Could I purchase an external hard drive and put os 9 on the external and then connect it to my MacBook Pro
And use it ?
No, OS 9 needs a PPC processor to run on, your machine has Intel processors.
Also the installer has to run from the disk to install onto a drive, how can you run the installer if it's not a PPC processor?
Check out the SheepShaver PPC emulator for Intel Mac's, I think that will work but it will take some doing.
I get it now,thank you so much for your help :-)
Can I install os 9 on a MacBook Pro
