I am trying to get an old iMac into the 21st
Century so I may use a Digital camera.
I've checked other questions and I see
words like "initialize" and "partition" and I
get nevous that I am going to lose a
bunch of stuff...can you hold my hand in
this?

I have downloaded the upgrade to 9.0, the
upgrade to 9.1 and the upgrade to 9.2...do
I need to buy an official "disc"?

Thanks for your help!

LPL

Yes, to legally use OS 9.0 or 9.2, you must buy a licensed copy of it.

----paxcirc.a-

And there isn't an 8.6 to 9.0 upgrade.

p

When you get said disk, use the 'Clean
Install' option, and you won't lose any
data. While I am a big fan of BACKING UP
any data you are afraid to lose
(ANY..DATA you would be crying about
later), and initializing before doing a nice
clean OS install, I doubt you are going to
do that now are you? So do the 'clean
install' of whatever OS 9.X you get, and
you will find "OLD SYSTEM FOLDER"
afterwards. My advice is to forget it's there.
Reinstall any apps you have to (you may
have to re-enter some serial numbers
and such), and after all is working well for
a couple weeks then trash that "OLD
SYSTEM FOLDER"

Wasn't OS9 20th century?

My iMac came with 8.6 three years ago (seems longer), and I have paid for all the upgrades since. It has definitely been worth it.

Yeah, that IIFX I used to run PShop 2 on
was a real screamer in it's day too. I think
it ran OS 7.