[WinMac] RE: Loading OS's: Hack Mac OS 8.6 to upgrade straight to System 9.1

Subject: [WinMac] RE: Loading OS's: Hack Mac OS 8.6 to upgrade straight to System 9.1
From: Dan Schwartz (Expresso[at]snip.net)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 16:16:29 EST

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        Dear Harold,

        Don't buy that 9.0 CD just yet - Here's the hack to go straight to 9.1. BUT,
it doesn't work on NuBus PowerMacs (6100, 7100, 8100; plus WGS 9150, PowerBook
5300)

        Open up copies of the Finder, System, and System Resources files in ResEdit
and change the vers (Version Number) entries (2 per file) from 8.6 to 9.0.0

        Move the current Finder, System and System Resources files to the trash and
then move the files you just edited into the System Folder. Reboot and run the
9.1 updater.

        Alternately, you can boot from a CD, edit the 3 files on the hard drive,
then run the 9.1 updater all without rebooting.

 -----

        OK, before you flame me for the ResEdit hack I posted above, I ask this
question: At what point should you pay for bugfixes and promised features?

        For example, the original iMac was shipped with MacOS 8.1, yet was almost
unusable. Should a user be required to shell out $99 for MacOS 8.5, just to
get the machine to work?

        Since the Quadra years, I've always maintained that it takes Apple at least 3
iterations of System software until a new hardware platform performs
reasonably up to expectations. In M$-speak, that generally means waiting for
the second - FREE - Service Pack.

        Here's another more direct example: The G4 "Yikes" & first generation
Sawtooths shipped with MacOS 8.6; but again was all but useless until System 9
could be run on it due to poor stability. [As a sidebar, the machines I worked
with had "good" DIMMs when I upgraded the firmware.] In any case, why should
the owner pay for basic bugfixes - Even if the bugfixes are in a new OS
release?

        In any purchase there's a basic, implied guarantee of "fitness of goods,"
mainly that the goods will perform substantially as represented. I've always
believed that Apple skirts the [U.S. Magnuson-Moss Act] law, both when they
release a new HAL without thorough testing of the OS required to run it, as
well as their retail DOA policy.

        Cheers!
        Dan

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Donovan, Harold [mailto:donovan.harold@nbpub.com]
>Subject: Loading OS's
>
>
>[Donovan, Harold] I want to upgrade my G3's to OS 9. They came with OS 8.
>Can I use my G4 OS 9 recovery CD to install the operating system so I can
>get started before the new licenses and software get here? Will I have to
>reload them again for drivers, etc. I am buying OS 10 for them, but Adobe
>PhotoShop doesn't work well with it yet (or am I mistaken?).
>
>Thanks
>
>Harold
>

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