Hello Peter! Everybody, allow me to introduce Peter, a long time user of all things DAW, MOTU, Logic and SVP from the Yahoo Opcodeusers group.
Welcome to the forum!
When I try to launch the software restore application from the CD, I'm told that Classic is no longer supported.
To clarify:
Apple
Software
Restore is a Mac OS app. Although the procedure is a little more complex, you need to run it in either OS9 or Classic. Since you obviously can't run it in OS9, you have to first install Tiger, which you
can run on the FW800. Install it on a separate partition and you can delete it afterwards if desired.
NOTE: Although the best way to avoid b-tree problems on multi-boot machines is to simply not have multiple OS's, I promise you (as a long time user of an MDD with exactly such a foolish bent) you can avoid them by:
A: Keeping OS9 on it's own partition - preferably on it's own drive.
B: Immediately (and I mean IMMEDIATELY) when you next boot Leopard, go to Preferences and deselect your OS9 partition to prevent it from being indexed by Spotlight.
C: Immediately do the same with Time Machine if you're using it. You almost never can successfully restore a crashed OS9 drive with Time Machine anyway - it will mess up all the OS9 permissions and you'll get a restored set of software that you'll be locked out of. You can use CCC or SuperDuper or such to back up OS9.
Failure to do is will, I absolutely guarantee you, soon begin causing repeated freezes, crashes, bombs, and all such nasty OS9 things. 10.5 will write stuff on the OS9 partition, it will cause OS9 to crash, OS9 disk first aid won't work, OSX disc utility will fix it (temporarily) but it will just get worse and worse.
I know this because I learned it all the hard way (and that was before this forum existed to help, unfortunately).
You may also find that moving a file from OSX to OS9
while in OSX may result in your being
locked out of that file back in OS9. That is, you'll be able to open it, but unable to actually
use it because you won't have permission to write any changes to it. You avoid this by moving files back and forth between them
while in OS9 only. This is actually not any hassle at all once you get used to it so you don't forget to move stuff before rebooting.