Classic MOL newbie question

Brendan J Simon mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:55:04 +1000


Hi MOL experts,

I'm new to the list and MOL.  I have a powerbood 17" with an 80GB HDD.  
I have Debian on a 60GB partition and MacOS-X on a 20GB partition.  I 
never planned to use MacOS-X but have it there for those rare times when 
one needs to run a Mac utility or something.  I was also curious about 
MacOS-X as it is BSD underneath the hood and thought that maybe it might 
be worth running MacOS-X natively instead of Linux as most of the apps 
that run on Linux are easily ported to MacOS-X.

Anyway, I have to run a Mac app that doesn't run in MacOS-X.  Apparently 
it runs in classic mode OK but I can't run it as I didn't install the 
classic drivers when I formatted the MacOS-X partition (I never 
envisaged wanting to run a MacOS9 program).

Q1) Can I install Classic mode drivers without reformatting my partiton 
(off topic I guess) ?

Q2) Can MOL run classic mode apps.  From what I've read MOL does not run 
classic mode as it is a classic emulator in it's own right.  True???

Q3) Can MOL run classic apps _without_ installing classic mode drivers 
on the MacOS-X partion???  This would be nice.

Many thanks for any help, suggestions or pointers.
Regards,
Brendan Simon.