I also had to slow down the boot procedure (throttle) to allow for this to happen before the Mac got upset. Basically to act as a diversion during boot. After playing with configurations for a while, I worked out that I could run OSX of the UWscsi bus (PCI) as long as I set up a helper drive on the Mac's internal bus. Until I come accross a beter PCI graphics board the 9600 is a no go for 10.3.Īlthough I knew the graphics would be slow, I turned my attention to my 8600. I used the settings with in XpostFacto to try and fix this, the closest I got was half of the installation screen. I worked out it was becuase both of my graphics boards were too old for Panther. It'd bring up the Gray Apple but then just stall during boot. Panther wouldn't run on the 9600, I couldn't work out why for a while. Originally I wanted to put OSX on the 9600 becuase then I could run an additional graphics board and a FireWire card. I've got a G3/300 board for them and 512 ram as well as an UWscsi/ATA66/usb all on the PCI bus. I've got an 8600 and a 9600, both retierd. I've been playing around with XpostFacto for a few months now on and off. If you've got an Old World machine with a fairly speedy processor (I really wouldn't recommend using OS X on anything slower than 500 mhz), then this may be the time to make the leap to OS X.ĪTI Radeon 7000 Video PCI card (32MB w/DVI)Īll functioning in OS X except original floppy drive (who needs it?). Ryan is also frequently vocal in the forum associated with this software (which hadn't been the case previously). This software actually works quite smoothly compared to a year or so ago (when I couldn't get it to work at all). Ryan (the author) has definitely put in some long hours developing this software, and I can tell you that he has come quite a long way. Keeps this machine and investment going for the long term. Finally stable on PowerTower Pro w/Sonnet 800mhz G4 card. I think this is the version that has worked the best. Can't go get a USB floppy drive, because the AIO does not have USB ports, which are required by 10.3. (Slightly OT) If I could just go altogether with X I wouldn't ask this, but: Does anyone have an opinion whether 10.3 is really so much better than 10.2 that I need to add to the complication of making the switch? It's going to be tight in the first place, as I need to partition the HD so I can have one side w/ OSX and the other w/ OS9, because I actually do use the built-in floppy and zip drives, both unsupported under all versions of X. If I can get hold of a set of 10.2 CDs, do I still need XPF? (Apple says no, just fyi, but if *users* have different actual experience, that's helpful to know.)ģ. Does anyone know what I might have done wrong in the dl process? I clicked the "Download now" button, that's all, and all that appeared to be necessary. I got a page of very strange code, and no actual dl at all. But the list mod was very encouraging about the superiority of 10.3 over 10.2, so I tried to dl XPF4. I went to the list in question looking for 10.2. I have asked Apple and they tell me that 10.2 will install and run on this Mac just fine. Hi! XPF was recommended to me by a list mod to help in installing 10.3 on a beige G3 AIO.
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