Tiger breaks hyperCard?

[Marty Billingsley]

That's just what we've been doing: copying over an old system folder.
Seems to work just fine; every classic app I've tried (admittedly, haven't
launched HC since installing Tiger) has worked well.

cheers,
  - marty

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Marty Billingsley (marty at ucls.uchicago.edu)
The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools


Dan Shafer <revdan at danshafer.com> writes:
> I can't say what the general case might be, but I *can* report that I
> merely copied an old System Folder from a Classic install on OS X
> 10.3 to my Tiger drive after installation and it seems to work fine.
> I don't use it often and I surely don't push it around much, but it
> hasn't crashed, broken, complained or otherwise caused a fuss.
>
>
> On Jun 28, 2005, at 8:46 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
>
> > Hi Todd and Jim,
> >
> > To be more precise, I was told that you can't install an OS 9.2.2
> > system folder on any partition where Tiger (or any OS X system) is
> > already installed.
> > It does not work: OS 9 must be installed first or installed on
> > another disk or partition...
> > At the very worst you have to backup, erase your Tiger disk, make
> > an OS 9  clean install (just copying an existing system folder is
> > risky :-) and a Tiger clean install on top :-(
> > Then when you see the hard disk prices at the moment, it might be a
> > better solution to buy an external firewire one...
> >
> > Le 28 juin 05 à 01:22, Todd Higgins a écrit :
> >
> >
> >
> >> This is true.  New machines do not ship with the Classic System
> >> Folder.  But If you have an existing Macintosh you can just copy
> >> the System Folder over.
> >>
> >> Todd
> >>
> >> On Jun 27, 2005, at 6:34 PM, Jim Hurley wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> I had heard, from a distance source, that a new Mac with Tiger
> >>> installed will not necessarily include classic. Anybody know
> >>> whether this is true?
> >>>
> >>>
> >