Here's what I've collected off of eBay now:
• A fairly nice Apple Powerbook G4 12" 1.5 GHz Laptop with Super Drive and Airport Card. No disks came with this computer and it has a higher version of OSX on it which does not have OS9 emulation. I think now I am set to erase the hard drive on this computer and use one or more of these that I also accumulated on eBay:
• Apple Mac OS X ver. 10.4 PowerBook G4 install discs, this includes both disc 1 and disc 2. 2Z691-5517-A / 2Z691-5499-A includes Mac OS 9.2. These discs were from a 12 inch PowerBook G4.
• Apple Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Full Retail Installation CD Set
• Apple OS X 10.4 Tiger Install Disc Power Mac(Upgrade from 10.3) that needs Panther to upgrade from.
I figured I would need to have the Tiger install disks to bring the system up to 10.4.11 (the last that has OS9 emulator.)
I bought the Panther set to have the panther to upgrade from.
and, last but not least, I saw the original install disk set for a 12" G4 which may be all I need, so I got that too.
I'm checking back in because I have these materials ready and the computer and I wanted to ask if I should NOT partition my hard drive and just to a straight install of the original install set mentioned first which will give me OS X 10.4 and then I can get the upgrade to 10.4.11 online from Apple.
What do you think? What is the best approach for me?