I wonder if anyone can help me here - I have an Indigo Clamshell and it appears the firmware is not the latest so I'm trying to update it.

I have a 20gb hard drive with Tiger installed and a retail OS 9.2.1 disc.

Steps taken so far:-

1) Booted to iPartition disc and shrunk the Tiger partition to make free space

2) Booted to OS 9 disc; can't initialise drive

3) Booted back into iPartition, made free space into MacOS extended partition entitled OS_9

4) Booted into OS 9 disc again; still can't initialise without wiping the whole hard drive

At this point I am stumped - I don't want to lose my Tiger install if I can help after all the hard work setting it up - is there any non-destructive way of installing OS 9 to the partiton I have set up ready?

I have a complete backup of Tiger on a firewire drive (using Carbon Copy Cloner) so if there are no other options I could reformat the hard drive, install OS 9 to a small partition and restore Tiger to the larger one, but it's always one of those 'will it really work' things you need to take a deep breath before trying.

If that's the case, then how much space do I need for OS 9.2.1 + maybe a few apps, and I assume it needs to be the first partition; my Tiger restore on the second?

Thanks very much

Cheers

Hugh