Re: followup to Transferring MS Word5 on floppies to G4 with ³Classic.²


Stephen G. Landesman wrote:
Since you and others have been so kind, I have a brief follow-up query; When one uses floppies, as I did in several re-installations of Word 5 on newer Macs with a floppy drive, each disk asks you to put in the succeeding disk. Do the several Disk Image files recognize the next folder that should be expanded and installed and put them in the correct places in the system folder?

Hei Stephen - At least it does work from my CD with the diskimages. Do remember that all images must be mounted before starting the installer in 'Disk 1'... I made the CD both with image files and with the floppies ALT+DRAG'ged to the temporary Toast 4.1.2 disk on my Beige G3.

I've made new installs of the Word 5.1 on both my PM 9600/350mhz and a PowerBook Pismo 500mhz. The only thing I then copied was the prefs in order to avoid having to set it up again from the buttom, because I had made changes to the toolbar buttons as well. I'm going to install the Word 5.1 onto my new PB 1,67ghz, when I get classic up and running on that one.:-) - Word 5.1 is - in my opinion - the best ever made MS textprocessor for the Mac.

One thing I forgot to mention in my first answer is that the temporary Toast disk must be made in 'HFS Standard' - not 'HFS+'/'HFS Extended'.

Cheers, Erik Richard

Erik Richard Sørensen <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Stephen G. Landesman wrote:
I currently have a G3 platinum tower with a floppy, CD-R, CD burner and Zip. Im planning to move up to a G4 with OSX that also runs OS9.2 (or ³Classic²) which will only have a Zip and CD. Since my most frequently used application continues to be MS Word 5.1, I want to transfer it to the ³Classic² component of the G4. I have the original 5 installation disks. How do I install these on my new G4 so that the ³Classic² side of the G4 will run them?
You can simply copy the Microsoft Word 5.1 folder + the MS files from the Preferences folder in the Os 9.x folder on your G3 - to a diskimage / temporary disk made with fx. Toast 4.x on the G3, and then burn the image file to a CD-R media.

When you've made the installations on the G4 and if the 'classic' on the G4 is bootable, it will also create a folder named 'Applications Mac OS 9', if not bootable, all Os 9.x apps also are stored in the 'Programs' folder on the OS X 10.3.x/10.4.x.

To use the Word 5.1 again, just copy back the 'Microsoft Word 5.1' folder to either 'Applications Mac OS 9' or to the 'Programs' folder. Also copy all the Word prefs files to the Os 9.x systemfolder -> 'Preferences'.

When either booted in Os 9.x or run in classic you can now just lauch Word 5.1 as normal, and both your serial and all the prefs settings are kept from the old G3 machine

Another method is to open 'DiscCopy' on your G3 and then insert the floppies one by one in your G3 floppydrive. Save the floppies one by one as an .img file to a folder called 'Microsoft Word 5.1' on the desktop on the G3. Burn this folder to a CD-R media.

To install the Word 5.1 from the burned CD-R onto OS 9.x/classic on the G4. Open/mount all images. The G4 must either be botted in OS 9.x or classic must be running. Find the one called 'Install' or 'Install 1' and start the installer and just run the installation as normal.

Third method. The G3 must be booted in Os 9.x or earlier. Made a folder on the G3 desktop called 'Microsoft Word 5.1' or a temporary disk made with a Toast ver. earlier than 5.x. Quit Toast without removing the temp icon from the desktop.

Insert each floppy, and when it appears on the desktop, hold down the ALT/OPT key while dragging the floppy icon to the created folder or temporary disk icon on the desktop. Burn a CD with the folder or the temporary disk.

To install from this CD. Just open the folder containing the installer and start the installer and either do a standard install or custom install. Such a CD is recognized as a single installer and will take each folder one by one and install from the content. Also here the G4 either must be booted in OS 9.x or classic must be running.

NOTE. You will not be prompted for entering your name and serial, since this was done the day you bought the package. Infact you don't have the serial yourself, but it was entered at the store, before you got the package. So both your name and the serial is inside in the application.

I've used all methods myself, and they works just fine, so now I also have a CD with the installer files, it's more safe than the floppies.

Erik, Many thanks. Your advice is especially useful since you seem to have done it yourself successfully! I'll probably use the Disk Image option and burn it on a CD. Thank you again. Stephen

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