I want to move an OS9.2 harddrive from my 9600 to a Beige G3. Does anyone know how to remove OS9 Helper? There's an extension, CinèMac Helper v 1.3 in the extensions folder. Is there anything else that needs to be removed? I'm guessing there's stuff in open firmware too. There's nothing about unistalling that I see in the install program and nothing on the OS9 Helper webpage, and googling turns up nothing. I would check in the OS9 Helper forum, but for some reason OWC requires credit card information to register for the forum !! No thanks! Anyone here know? thanks
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Oh, now I see, they want credit card information because they charge $10 to join the forum. Hmm...
all it does is patch the install files. There is nothing really installed. It just allows the files to be installed and/or patches the files in such a way that it does not need to check for a G3 system.
Any particular reason you want to unpatch the system? Doesn't it work fine already like it is?
It's still in the 9600. I figured it would run fine with it still installed, but you know, I just wanted to clean it off to avoid any possibility of a conflict down the road. Nice to have a clean system. So what about that one extension?
Sounds like a CoDec Extension for media. Did you have any applications that took advantage of the Video In/Out ports on the machine? it very well could be that it put an extension in there. If you are paranoid, just move it to the desktop and see if any applications complain about it.
The CoDec is not in the original System Set iirc, I never dealt with a machine with 7.x on it, from which the system *might* have been upgraded from. What was the original install discs? Were they 8.1? 7.6? 7.5.x?
J/w because my Power Computing PowerBase 240 came with an 8.1 System CD (which i lost conveniently). I know it also came with some weird video extensions, but I don't recall seeing that on the list.
Like I said, if you think the extension will cause a conflict, startup without it in the extensions folder, and see what complains. Run w/o it for a while, and if it seems like nothing, just get rid of it.
u dont need to remove it, it will run fine on a beige g3 with os 9 helper
Oh, that's interesting. Maybe that extension is for the Wired4DVD decoder card I have in the 9600. I'll just not worry about OS9 Helper on the system then. Thanks for the replies.
That extension is a Color Sync extension document. I thought it was part of OS9 Helper because it has "helper" in the name, is the first extension in the extensions folder (has a space before the name), and was lacking any icon.
OS 9 Helper does more than just patch the installer files. It also patches several System suitcase resources. Read this thread for all the gory details.
In short, it would be best to just do a clean install of OS 9 and patch up to 9.2.2. Don't bother trying to "uninstall OS 9 Helper."
Peace,
Drew