Thanks @Architecture, that is just the kind of links I was looking for. I tend to gravitate to live and acoustical in music, but back in the day I got sort of hooked on SIDs on my Commodore. I see what appears to be an old Commodore monitor in your setup I went ahead and subscribed to your channel. I never turn on notifications, so please post links when you have something new up.

Here’s one of my “Tiny Desk” sessions with my smaller MIX TDM setup.

https://youtu.be/IjdbGAC1UT4?si=0-jsKQ-q_5A5Tzc6

this thread is showing its age already... my findings.

if one is stubborn enough to dual boot a mini from one, non-partitioned disk, you can, but it's not fun and not ideal. a couple of weeks ago I partitioned the drive and installed the OSes on their own partitions. That works better, but you still can't use startup disk in OS X to select an older system, whether on a different partition, or not. have to hold down ALT at startup and use the OF startup screen to select OS 9.

In any case, the entire point of this exercise, for me, is nostalgia and tinkering. i have no production uses for my macs, it'ts just for fun and experimentation. I am enjoying all of it, even if i have to wipe a drive and start over. it's all in fun.

enjoy

I've stayed out of this discussion because I don't own a Mini. I DO however have a dual-boot G4 MDD. Few subjects have received as extensive, circular and frustrating discourse on this Forum as have all of the trials and tribulations of dual-booting OS9 and OSX-whatever on one Mac model or another not originally built to allow this.

If there is one constant that constantly reappears as that major part of the solution, it is the one you are clearly aware of and you yourself quoted in your original post:

Hey guys,
Per everything I have read the disk has to be partitioned and 9.2.2 installed on one, and 10.4 or whatever on the other...

Please understand that a LOT of people have spent a LOT of time trial-and-erroring and otherwise testing every possible alternative they could think of to find the solution to allow two essentially incompatible OS'es and their really incompatible filesystems to coexist and operate where they were never intended to by Apple.

This is just one more of many, many issues that have occurred in this situation.
The solution that you are evidently to stubborn to embrace is the one you're well aware of:

Initialize the disk and install OS9 drivers, then:
Partition the disk and reinstall the OS'es then:
Enjoy your now dual-booting-without-issues Mini.

It's like a NIKE thing…… Just Do It

seems to dual boot ok using the OF startup (option at as startup). am i missing something?

if you are brave enough for OF (i am not), OF is surely an option.

but if you have an old firewire case around (and an available SSD/HD) this might be the more convenient option for the future.

(the already existing OS9 folder on your mini can simply be copied to the external drive in that case... opening the system folder once usually should bless it.)

if you go on youtube and search for electronic music from around 1993 - 2003, you can safely assume that 40-50% of those are made using classic MacOS in the one or other way.

but a /music folder for the works of the members of this board in the download server (which is what i understand you're mainly asking for) would also about time - we´re discussing that since quite a while.

seems to dual boot ok using the OF startup (option at as startup). am i missing something?

Take the external OS9 drive, boot from it, run the DiskWarrior or Norton Disk Doctor maintenance utilities and see for yourself

seems to dual boot ok using the OF startup (option at as startup). am i missing something?

I am not sure I am putting this in the right place, please move if it fits better elsewhere.

There are many posts on the forum deal with music producation software, but I have not seen any links to the music. So I am wondering if I am not looking in the right places. I always enjoy listening to music I have not heard before. I would enjoy checking out the music you are making.

i already forgot what is better; having OS9 external or having OSX external.

however, the threadstarter should understand that it is hardly feasible on a mac mini to boot both systems (while alternating between the two on a daily basis), from the internal disk because of the way how OS9 boots on this unsupported machine.

when you need that for some reason one should exchange the CD driver for a little SSD for the second OS (and use external CD drives)

if i am a bit off with that "information", somebody please correct me.