Well, you could try to run the OS 8 installer from OS X's Classic environment, but it would probably fail -- the installer checks the HD even if you have the "update disk driver" option turned off, and the installer would freak out because Classic doesn't allow direct access to the hardware. Also, I imagine that the installer would see your iMac's HD as the startup device, and it would therefore refuse to install onto it.The only way I know to get OS 8 on an OS X hard drive is to attach another hard drive (or perhaps a CD-R or ZIP disk) that already has an OS 8 installation on it, and copy the System Folder onto the OS X hard drive. If you do that, however, be careful. You need to make sure the OS 8 System Folder is "blessed" and the OS 9.2 System Folder (used by OS X for "Classic" environment) is unblessed. Otherwise, when you transfer the hd to the 631, it will try to start up in OS 9.2 and will of course fail.
All the foregoing said, I must (gently) recommend that you think twice before doing this. Running a pre-OS X version of Mac OS -- particularly one as early as OS 8, particularly on such a primitive IDE implementation as the 630 series, and particularly using disk drivers from another OS version (9.2) -- might very well introduce enough disk corruption to prevent successful booting into OS X if you reconnect the drive to your iMac in an emergency.
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Edited by - tmtomh on 02 Jul 2003 19:14:51
OS 8.1 install while in X
Posted - 02 Jul 2003 : 18:31:59
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